Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways is a project inviting reflection by artists on the anxieties embodied by the rank infrastructural development across India and its uncomfortable coexistence with local ecologies.
Now in its third year, the project has invited artists, collectives and other professionals to develop projects that are site-specific and have an inter-disciplinary approach. Mapping various sites across the country, artists and communities have come together to discuss the regeneration of the environments they inhabit. The project encourages the archiving of local knowledge and mythologies, flora, fauna, home remedies, stories and folklore as integral to the specific artist’s intervention.
This years ongoing projects are:
NR 9: Akshay Rathore and Flora Boillot (Aulinjaa Village, Madhya Pradesh)
Abstract Reality: A Visual Perspective on the Organic Movement in Madhya Pradesh http://aulinjaamp.blogspot.in/
NR 10: Priya Ravish Mehra (Najibabad, District Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh)
Making the Invisible Visible: The Darning Tradition of India
http://rafoogari.wordpress.com/
NR 11: Uma Ray (Domahani, District Jamshedpur, Jharkhand)
Where the River Meets its People
http://wheretherivermeetsitspeople.blogspot.in/
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