About Varsha Nair
Born in Kampala/Uganda, Varsha Nair lives and works in Bangkok/Thailand. Her solo and collaborative works have been exhibited internationally, including at Buka Jalan Performance event/Kuala Lumpur, Beyond Pressure 2/Rangoon, Asiatopia/Bangkok, Open 10/Beijing, Performance Saga/Basel, Tate Modern/London, National Review of Live Art/Glasgow, Devi Art Foundation/New Delhi, Art In General/New York. She is co organiser of Womanifesto, Thailand www.womanifesto.com and editorial board member of web-art journal Ctrl+P www.ctrlp-artjournal.org
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Here’s a space to tell all…. Read on: http://art-leaks.org/2012/11/27/hindsight-is-always-2020-jakarta-biennale-2011/ Rarely do the behind the scenes messy stories of the art world come to light, and here’s one that has touched me. The curator, Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez and some of the artists … Continue reading …
… this pronouncement from Roland (he lives in Koln) from a recent email exchange with him after a very long time…. “TIME”. It seems to echo my sentiments, except in my case time is not a “him” but its … Continue reading …
Bangkok, October/November 2011 THRESHOLD Will it rain today? How strong will the deluge be? Should we move before the water arrives? How much above sea level is this area? How high will the tide be? Should we wait and see? … Continue reading …
Photo: Saskia Nagel I am now back in Berlin working on the project Meridian | Urban: Curatorial projects on Health, initiated by HKW. http://www.hkw.de/en/programm/2011/meridian_urban/veranstaltungen_53880/Veranstaltungsdetail_62900.php
I get homesick for the smell of fabrics… Indian fabrics. I have this urge to bury my face in block-printed, tie-dyed, hand-embroidered cottons and silks that I indulge in the moment I get to my home town, Baroda. And I … Continue reading …
I land back in Bangkok. On the drive home I find the turn into my soi (lane) obscured by an election poster (general election coming up on 3rd of July), right next to the communal dustbins.
A while ago an old house diagonally opposite to my place in Bangkok was demolished by its new owners, and when I returned from India I found a new 3-storey construction well on its way.
Picking up on where I left off in my last post, I decided to ‘revisit’ a work I had started to do in Baroda in 1999 and yet again focus on changes in the urban landscape. In 1999 I started … Continue reading …
This comes from my other home town, Baroda, India, where I have been for the past two weeks. I underwent a small surgery on my eye and all was a blur for a while but am now able to “see” … Continue reading …
