Igle Ivagle ◊◊◊ Right here Right now. Workshop.

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‘Igle Ivagle’ (Right here Right Now) is a workshop part of the Interim workshop of Srishti School of Art, Design& Technology (Bengaluru, India). In 2013 this workshop took place in Bengaluru and was facilitated by Tahireh Lal and Naïm Aït-Sidhoum. The works created by Srishti students tried to engage local communities of Shivaji Nagar quarter in Bengaluru in order to develop films and other artworks. In November-December 2014 the Igle Ivagle workshop is a collaboration between the Srishti School of Art, Design& Technology and the ESAAA, l’École Supérieure d’Art de l’Agglomération d’Annecy,(France) and is facilitated by Pooja Kaul, Tahireh Lal, Naïm Aït-Sidhoum and Adrián Torres Astaburuaga, and tries to draw a subjective portrait of the everydayness of Shivaji Nagar. It contemplates the multi-faceted nature of the Indian Metropolis. Each street corner tells a story that helps to unpack the idea of contemporary Bengaluru. The addition of local micro-stories constructs an alternative History as valid as the institutional History.

In one month, 20 students from Srishti School of Art and from ESAAA, have been going into the streets through multiple points of view and levels of engagement, observing the everyday gestures of the local economy, craftmanship and knowledge, and generate artwork inspired by the same, and with a ‘doing with’ and not ‘doing upon’ premise. They have worked with various people, situations, places and objects in the area with attention toward their relationship with the human space and the affect in everyday life of people associated with them. These different student works intend to reveal the everyday stories of Shivaji Nagar through artworks like films, photographs, soundscapes, drawings, other artefacts made collaboratively with people working in Shivaji Nagar. This is the result of 7 audivisual projects between the 15 final projects developed by the Indian-French teams:

All this work has been shown at the RBANM’s school, in Shivagi Nagar quarter, aiming to bring together these collaborations between students and Shivaji Nagar community at large, trying to instal and show the works in an open public space constructed for that occasion. The installation was meant to content of all student projects as well as the construction of a screen in a public space was one more project, coordinated by Adrián Torres and Pooja Kaul with Marianne Barrieu collaboration, was constructed an co-created by the group . Te installation called ‘scarffolding is not a craftmanship anymore’ reinterpretates the local wood scaffolding, commonly used in India as a construction system in order to generate a dispositif able to content all our works. After the show the installation was dismantled and the wood was recovered by Srishti School for further installations.