Room for ImprovementGrant Watson, Suman Gopinath, Jon Barraclough Room for Improvement was a workshop that took place over four weeks at the Crafts Museum in New Delhi and brought together six leading artists and craftsmen from India and the UK. The Museum provided an unusually rich context for an experimental workshop where a loosely affiliated group of artists and craftsmen could make new work including an installation of refuse from the museum and its surroundings by Tomoko Takahashi, surreal, large scale wall drawings by Valsan Koomer Kolleri, and a series of cartoons depicting the artists at work by Kalam Patua, made in the 19th Century Kalighat tradition. Accompanying this are texts by the curators and the museum s director, plus transcriptions of conversations between the participants, and ongoing discussion at CAIR. |
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