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The Park
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Thursday, April 30, 2009. Each day when I enter the locality of Dakshinpuri, the women seated in front of their houses wave to me, ask in greeting, “Hope all is well today? 8221; I reply with a smile. I first encounter Anu’s mother, who sits on her small front step, waiting for the water or for her grandchild to return from the first shift at school. Yashoda waves to me. As usual she is seated on the cot in front of her house, busy with some domestic task or the other, knitting, or chatting with her ...
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The Park: Insightful Perspectives
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009. Our early interventions in the park had aroused reactions ranging from hostile to apathetic to aggressive. Obstacle after obstacle came up when we began our dialogues with the residents. It is difficult even now. However, the pens of some local youngsters freely offered insightful perspectives. The excerpts below illustrate the blurring of private / public spatial boundaries, as well as the activity and modes of resistance in both public and domestic spheres:.
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The Park: April 2009
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Thursday, April 30, 2009. Each day when I enter the locality of Dakshinpuri, the women seated in front of their houses wave to me, ask in greeting, “Hope all is well today? 8221; I reply with a smile. I first encounter Anu’s mother, who sits on her small front step, waiting for the water or for her grandchild to return from the first shift at school. Yashoda waves to me. As usual she is seated on the cot in front of her house, busy with some domestic task or the other, knitting, or chatting with her ...
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The Park: An encounter
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Sunday, April 12, 2009. An Evening Event was collectively produced by the young members of the Ankur Bal Club, local residents of Dakshinpuri, and a artist/media practitioner (myself), at the site of the municipal park. This project developed through the generation and compilation of narratives linked to and embedded in the locality of Dakshinpuri and the park, with participants describing their relationship to the site and to shared spaces within it. Upon arrival at the park the next morning, we learnt ...
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The Park: May 2009
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009. It is not really possible to adequately describe my interaction with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi [MCD], beginning in October 2008, during the process of acquiring an official lease that would enable Ankur Bal Club to intervene in the park in Dakshinpuri as part of a public art project. The encounter with the municipality took the shape of a series of Kafkaesque recursions within the gloomy recesses of the three-storey MCD office in Green Park. Tuesday, May 26, 2009. When I...
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The Park: Garbage
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009. During my student years in England, I supplemented my stipend by doing manual work in various places. One of these was the Heinz food factory. I also worked in the laundry and cleaning department. The job involved cleaning and putting it into bins, and then cleaning out these massive bins. When I started visiting Dakshinpuri resettlement colony two years ago, the park at the corner of J Block had been abandoned and ignored by the neighbourhood for a long time.
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The Park: January 2009
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Sunday, January 4, 2009. From the beginning of this project my intention is to expand and invite engagement and thought through the park. To make the park a space for exploratory dialogue and experimental creation, I have always preferred the idea of decision making in building up the space. So I have organized workshops with the neighbourhood conducted by the team of young members who I am working with. The second emphasis was on the awareness for cleanliness of the park (sanjhi jagah). The neighbou...
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The Park: June 2010
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The Park
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009. The only problem in the peaceful environment is that the drinking water tank is always near-empty. There is never enough water in it to satisfy the constant thirst of people who want to sit under the big banyan tree. There is no other source of public drinking water in Dakshinpuri. The lone, small, functioning public faucet on the main road outside the park does not attract the residents of Dakshinpuri, who say, “That tap is for slum-dwellers.”. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
