Beyond Boundaries

Cutting across diverse disciplinary paradigms, this International Residency deals with the idea of Bookmaking in general and Artist's books in particular. It is to critically re-think about the very structure of book, both in terms of its physicality and functionality. This is also an attempt to introduce new understandings of Bookmaking that forth come when artists from diverse disciplines such as Graphic Design, Advertising, Animation, Painting and Architecture unite. In another sense, this residency is a platform where cross-cultural affiliations occur, as artists come from different geographies and more importantly from diverse cultural backgrounds. These Intersections are ought to bring forth new cultural expressions, extending their enquiry to broader contexts.

In the year 2009, Khoj is looking to engage with the idea of design from its most obvious usages in industry and object design to its most abstract form and how these aspects can be explored in art making/ visual arts in various ways. In continuing with this thematic, this residency focuses on Bookmaking with a strong underpinning of design in all its various aspects.

To introduce the artists, Logaine Navascues studied Advertising in Lima, Peru, and has worked as a creative director, editor and designer. As a reader, writer and permanent seeker, she wants to re-think the book, experimenting with new formats and approaches to reading. Sebastian Cordova is an Architect based in Mexico; he sometimes participates in art related contexts with lots of narrative appetite. Aditya Pande is based in New Delhi and studied at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. His studio production oscillates between the fine and applied arts, two and three dimensions, the sensuously tactile and the aggressively optical. Sachin George Sebastian is a graduate in Graphic Design from National Institute of Design and works as a freelancer based in Delhi. As a paper engineer he loves to sit with paper all the time exploring the structural possibilities of the same. Meghana Bisineer is a graduate from the RCA London. She is a freelance animator, artist consultant on cross discipline projects and also a part-time tutor at the RCA London. Sukanya Ghosh is a painter and animator, she pursued painting from Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda and Animation from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. She currently works as a freelance practitioner based in Kolkata.

Thus, having artists from different regions and cultural backgrounds, this residency in short, is an attempt to think beyond boundaries by intersecting, operating and overlapping diverse cultural and disciplinary understandings with specific reference to Bookmaking.