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These artworks were created for a paper titled ‘Lincoln, Gandhi and Obama: A Creative visual dialogue in Miniature painting style’By Shelly Jyoti . Presented at The ATWS( Association of Third World Studies )conference IIT Chennai 2013
Ajrakh-Celebrating a Textile Tradition by Shelly Jyoti For Namaste Magazine by ITC Hotels publication-Jodhpur issue 2015
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XVII International Conference, Goa 21-24 December 2014 Venue: International Centre, Goa SALT-A COLONIAL METAPHOR: RELEVANCE TODAY VERBAL, VISUAL AND NEW ART MEDIA By Shelly Jyoti Delhi based Artist, Poet and an Independent curator
Abstract :My paper is an attempt to theorize my own artwork ‘Salt: The Great March 2013-14’ series I& II- A visual Art project. The Salt March series explore salt as a symbol of non-violence. The project is inspired by the Gandhi’s theory of satyagrah- a challenge to ones own truth with stress on self-purification, self-examination and self-assessment. Satyagrah stimulates our conscience and soul searching for the upliftment of all (sarvodaya). The “Salt” series explore khadi as a contemporary social movement visualized through art and traditional craft traditions and processes, seeking out the possibilities of bringing the khadi spirit into our daily lives. If by spinning, weaving and wearing khadi, can the commitment to individual action bring about a sense of pride in our nation in the 21st century? Can such an action bring about nationalistic feeling and significant changes in our society? The “Salt” series is a continuation of my earlier series, ‘Indigo Narratives (2008-14) that were inspired by an anti-colonial, nonviolence movement that took place in 1917-18 and also Gandhi’s first non-violence protest ‘champaran’ movement for indigo farmers in India. The works feature site-specific khadi fabric installations including clothing, 40 artworks utilizing Ajarkh textile traditions on khadi fabric and spoken poetry video film. To draw from ‘Parapolitics: Toward the City of Man’, can modern societies become genuine moral communities? According to Gandhi, they can. Gandhi’s vision of a Sarvodayan society is embryonic, but nonetheless engaging and stimulating explaining swadharma for individuals defining traditions and duty clearly. These works have been exhibited at IGNCA (Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts) New Delhi (Sept-Oct 2013):India International Centre, New Delhi (September 2014): The Museum Dakshin Chitra, Chennai (Oct -Nov2014) Lectures of the above at IGNCA New Delhi , Lalit kala Academy , Chennai, Apparao Galleries Chennai, New Delhi 2013-14 Scheduled venues: Baroda (2015): Gandhi memorial Centre Washington Dc 2015.
click here :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXl8bgjmA7Y
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Video Documentary
SALT: THE GREAT MARCH 2013 (A VISUAL ART PROJECT)
http://youtu.be/O5p5xvH7cZc
“Lincoln, Gandhi and Obama: A Creative visual dialogue in Miniature painting style”
By Shelly Jyoti Artist, Designer, Poet and an independent curator
View the full 23 min lecture at The ATWS conference IIT Chennai
Video credits: Dr Kehbuma Langmia
Image : ‘Lincoln ,Gandhi and Obama: A visual Dialogue’,Gouache on wasli paper,11×8 inches, 2013
For
Association of Third World Studies (ATWS)
31st Annual International Conference
28-30 December 2013
Chennai, India
Venue: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras)
Erik H. Erikson records in his book “Gandhi’s Truths” that when Mahatma Gandhi met with the British viceroy in 1930 after the Indian salt protest campaign, Gandhi took some duty-free salt from his shawl and said with a smile that the salt should ” remind you of the famous Boston Tea Party’.
From the Boston Tea Party to Gandhi’s Salt March, struggles over economic issues have historically had great importance in anticolonial movements. This artwork has multiple parallels and references of Boston Tea party, blue pottery from china and Obama’s self-confessed wisdom derived from Lincoln and Gandhi.
Abstract: Using a visual language , I am exploring within my recent artwork titled ‘Lincoln ,Gandhi and Obama: A visual dialogue’(2013) the commonalities between legends Lincoln and Gandhi, the two great political leaders of their times who fought for the freedom of their countrymen . Further they both have been personal mentors and inspiration to Obama . I am attempting to create the imagery in Persian miniature art form engaging by weaving a dialogue between Lincoln, Gandhi and Obama . As a contemporary artist, my works are centred on historical iconographic elements within the cultural context of Indian history. I explore and construct the hermeneutics of period histories, its contemporary representation of socio-economic and political inquiry within my art practice. This artwork is an extension of my previous projects ‘Salt: The Great March’(2013) and ‘Indigo Narratives’(2009-13) which examined Gandhiji’s involvement in freedom struggle as an anti-colonial resistant movements.
My paper would explore in facilitating a visual dialogue and also investigating the technique of traditional miniature artwork that originated from Persia and came in India through Mughals and still prevent in India in different styles.
‘Lincoln, Gandhi and Obama: A visual dialogue’(2013) series of artworks will be discussed by Mandakini V Jha(Dept of Sociology M.S university Baroda)in her paper titled “A Painting on Lincoln: Sociological Theory , Art and Artists”
Shelly Jyoti
Artist, Designer, Poet and an independent curator
REVIEW 2013 Newsletter
January –April 2013
INDIGO:SHELLY JYOTI &LAURA KINA (Two woman show)
Chicago Cultural Centre IL USA
Public lecture: Chicago rooms, Chicago Art Galleries IL
Talks: Art Institute of Chicago ,Textile Dept of chicago, DeePaul Univ chicago
In part supported by ICCR New Delhi and Gujarat lalit kala Academy
Sept- October 2013
SALT: THE GREAT MARCH
Re-contextualising Azrakh textile tradition in contemporary art and craft (Solo show)
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts IGNCA New Delhi
Catalog: Publication by IGNCA
Public lecture: Re-building a Sense of Nationalism , Lecture Hall at IGNCA
The show supported by IGNCA
November 2013
CARE package C/o India (Group show of 5 Asian or Asian descent artists )
India International Centre, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi India
November – January 2014
INDIGO: SHELLY JYOTI &LAURA KINA
Gandhi Memorial Centre Washington DC
Supported by Embassy of India , ICCR New Delhi
December 2013 Conferences
SALT AND INDIGO : A VISUAL TRANSLATION IN REFRENCE TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY
For XVI International Conference, Forum for Contemporary Theory
Theme: “Translation, Comparatism and the Global South”
Date: 15 – 18 December 2013 Mysore India
Lincoln, Gandhi and Obama: A Creative visual dialogue in Miniature painting style
The 31st Annual conference of the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS)
Theme:Prioritizing the Future:Continuing and change in the Global South in the 21st Century
28-30 December 2013
Chennai, India
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras)
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Shelly Jyoti Newsletter
November 16, 2013
INDIGO: WORKS BY SHELLY JYOTI & LAURA KINA
The distinguished chief Guest – Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu ,Charge d’Affaires, Washington DC
November 16 until January 2014
These exhibits will be presented by Gandhi Memorial Centre in co-operation with Embassy of India with support of Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR)
Saturday, November 16, 2013 opening reception of “Indigo: An Exhibition of Textiles by Laura Kina and Shelly Jyoti” at the Gandhi Memorial Center with distinguished Guest Mr. Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Embassy of India – Washington DC
Click to view Priyum Jyoti speech on the opening day on project Indigo Narratives –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3NgUWvYR-g
View photos by Abby Moy from the opening reception:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63834915@N03/sets/72157637763656534/with/10904726225/
View news from Gandhi Memorial Centre , Washington DC
http://gandhimemorialcenter.org/
The exhibition will be on view through January 2013 Fri and Sat 10am-4pm and by appointment. 4748 Western Avenue, Bethesda, MD. www.gandimemorialcenter.org
INDIGO project is a two women show in collabration chicago based artist laura kina who presents INDIGO: Deveon Avenue series.The works were previewed in vadoadra,Gujarat (2009), exhibited in New Delhi (2010) , Mumbai (2010)and travelled across the continent to Seattle (2011), Miami (2011), Chicago(2013) and now re opening in Washington DC (2013-14)
Shelly Jyoti
