Faith

09/12/2016

  Gram Art Project is happy to invite you all for India’s “first Land Art Festival” (Gram Dhara Chitra Utsav) it will start from 25th December to 31st December 2016 in Parads…

12/01/2016

in Paris
Sharing the powerful video made by Jonathan Remple, the video of the performance "Faith in Paris”. I did this performance in collaboration with Lalit Vikamshi supported by The Eroles Project & Janmanch Caroline Erb at Anti COP 21- Paris.
also for more details sharing the link of "Faith in Paris" page:-

http://gram1202.wix.com/faithinparis
http://gram1202.wix.com/faithinparis #!blank/vid27

After this performance when we were back to India the set of magical things happened with the space where I was buried live in Paris, and with the coffin too...sharing a short write-up and videos about it by Angus Joseph:-

https://parisplanplace.wordpress.com/…/closing-the-%E2%86%…/

garden that the Faith in Paris installation was held in, became the host to a peace tree sown in post WW2 europe. it cycled with Ben from scotland, and found a home where Shweta Bhattad immersed herself as part of the FUNeral Rites performed through COP21- Angus Joseph:-

https://youtu.be/-mYs5-wbgoo

And even more amazingly, the very vessel that hosted the burial received a flame of NU life, as the ISOJ team helped recover the coffin and transformed it into something new and beyond- Angus Joseph:-

https://youtu.be/TSW39D22T9A

Our heart filled gratitude to all the people who directly or indirectly supported to make this happen Pooja Sood Caroline Erb Bhavna Kakar Rajyashri Goody Jonathan Remple Angus Joseph Laurent Pinon ウイン アリソン Khoj International Artists' Association The Eroles Project Gallery Latitude 28 The Good Artist Shraddha Borawake Lindsay Alderton Mona Emilie Ruth Cross Deneth Mariposa Kai Lossgott Nicky Scordellis Harriet Wallis Esther Tew Lara White Bala Encontrada Miranda Shaw Aira Mar Kakusu Mesutora Margaret Shiu 竹圍工作室 Bamboo Curtain Studio Amitabh Pawde Alagangle Sachin Palewar Saket Bhattad Laura Phelps Rogers donkers Kavish Seth Vedant Bhattad Anna Kinbom Ashish Kaner Parvindar Singh Tarique Sani Swati Sani I Have A Dream Project Vancouver Biennale Sampoorna Bamboo kendra Gram Art Project Barrie Mowatt Murray Nichol Satyabhama Majhi Prachi Mahurkar Tanmay SJ Vinay Futane Hema Guha Aditi Bhattad Ekta Aggarwal Purushottam Bhattad Usha Bhattad Gram Art Project Rucha Kulkarni Chaudhari Trishla Talera Kumar Prashant Sunil Warrier Barkha Mathur patil killor upadhyay, upadhyay. The Eroles Project crew and the amazing kitchen team from across Europe who cooked for artists and activists everyday during COP21 and gave us this beautiful garden to perform.

Paris | December 2015 Artist Shweta Batthad buried herself alive outside the climate talks to raise awareness of the 300,000 Indian farmers who have committed…

07/12/2015

Hello everybody, thank you for your support, wishes and love, we performed few hours ago. There was a good participation of farmers artists and activists around the world. The performance was of 3 hours. Due to security reasons and lot of police we need to perform in different venue. Oxygen cylinder and doctor was not available, we used a fan made by Atul & Prajakta Upadhyay from Nagpur and a pipe to flow the air in earth inside the coffin. We got no labours but the activists, artists and farmers dug the hole for 3 hours and they said they felt the pain and responsibility inside them and cried... they said that they could connect to the performance as the farmers situations in their countries is in same as in India and also some of them have farmers su***de. We shoot the videos which will be shown today at Janmanch for farmers at Vishnuji Ki Rasoi. parallel to this Lalit Vikamshi will show the support videos we got around the world about their views and concerns about farming in their own countries, it will be shown today at Paris The Eroles Project at La Générale COP21

Pooja Sood, Khoj Int Artists Asso, Khoj Int Artists, Alagangle, Latitude Twentyeight, Margaret Shiu, Caroline Erb, Sasatwa Foundation, Gram Art Project, Bhumiputra Sangharsha Wahini, Abhijeet Arunrao Falke, Sachin Palewar, Tarique Sani, Amitabh Pawde, Saket, Aditi, Vedant, The Good Artist, Rajyashri Goody, Laura Phelps Rogers, Laurent Pinon, ウイン アリソン, Kavish Seth, Anna Kinbom, Parvindar Singh, Shashikant Sawarkar, Angus Joseph, Sara Mascia, 竹圍工作室, Bamboo Curtain Studio, Maitreyi Jichkar, Zero Gravity, biennale, Swati Sani @ and all the supporters here in Paris, India & around the globe...

05/12/2015

Videos sent by our collaborators from all over the world to support our performance and/or talk about farmer issues - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPVo86d3oyeZ_1eBvcMvxafdeVXBUtnK0

03/12/2015

Raising Farmer's voice in Paris - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Nagpur/City-artists-Bhattad-and-Vikamshi-to-highlight-farmers-issues-in-Paris/articleshow/50001820.cms

01/12/2015

22/11/2015

"Faith"
Dear friends, thank for being part of I Have A Dream Project as collaborator, spectator, critique and well wisher. We all initiated this project in 2014, which is still going on with the people willing to share their stories and being part of it globally. In the journey of this last one and the half year with the project we came across global issues related to Farming & Farmers and joining the dots we realized that overall issues related to farming are one or less similar globally.
We are taking a new initiative by opening an online discussion forum which will be open globally to share your views, ideas, listening, critiques, participation and information about your local farming scenario. On Dec 7th in Paris we are going to be part of exhibition “Sharing Our Stories”: Global South Social Movements on climate change, which is organized during COP21.
During this exhibition I will perform where I will bury myself in a ground, in a coffin for several hours continuously writing "Faith" at the same time there will be discussions and hangout sessions on local to global farming issues. In India ten years back for the first time a report of National Commission on Farmers was submitted, this report stated the practical application and solutions on the farmers, farming system & difficulties. When we read this report and see it on a wider screen we realize that many of its points are applicable to global farming scenario as well. In the hang out session which will be held during the performance we want you to participate in it by sharing the present farming scenario around you and your views on Farmers Commission report. (link to “Farmers Commission”; www.kisanayog.gov.in) If you share similar concerns and if you feel that you can connect giving your opinion on the Farmers Commission or adding your points to it, you can send us your views in the form of a small video (duration max. 45 seconds) before 27th Nov. 2015. The video by you will be projected in Paris during the UN climate conference which will be part of the performance and hangout sessions, at same time it will be projected in India and aired online.
To collaborate and to be part of “Faith in Paris” please mail us back also visit our Faith in Paris webpage; http://gram1202.wix.com/faithinparis

05/03/2015

Recently being part of two weeks “Khoj International Art residency” & “Good Artists of Pune”, I with some likeminded people of Pune initiated a Community Art Project “Farmers Haat”, where we invited farmers to directly connect with consumers to sell their produce. These likeminded people were students from medical and engineering colleges, NGO’s, individuals, Artists who believe in the concept of working with & for the Farmers from long time in their own ways… The idea was that if likeminded people working in fragments come together at one platform and initiate “Farmers Haat” together we can have frequent and sustainable farmers market, where farmers come together interact, exchange and connect directly to consumers. We made it the place where Artists paint- sculpt-perform, musicians play music and people from different fields contribute in their own ways, so that it became a vibrant and sustainable community space.
With the “Farmers Haat” I performed commenting on the present situation of farmers being in a coffin where I buried myself 2 feet underground for three hours continuously writing Vishwas(FAITH), believing that if we are concerned and sensitive about things and if “we” come together, discuss, decide and act then the situations can change for better.
Looking forward to see it being initiated on more frequent basis & new places…
Sharing some of the images of “Performance-FAITH” and “Farmers Haat”…

04/02/2015

Do visit ongoing solo show by Shweta Bhattad at Gallery Latitude 28, show is open till 27th Feb 2015

13/12/2013

Do the Glorified R**e Scenes in the Movies Inspire you to R**e...?
My performance in exhibition "Mapping Gender" at JNU/SAA, Delhi-2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55R4phjiGfo&feature=youtu.be