Sept - Oct 2016
KYTA
A TRAVEL AND ART EXPERIMENT
KYTA 2016
SEPT 09 - OCT 16 / KALGA, HIMACHAL PRADESH
The 3rd annual edition of KYTA marked the beginning of Kalga's own private art collection spread over the Himalayan village besides installations and small scale exhibitions within its buildings. New video pieces, virtual artworks and process documentation were also added to our growing electronic archives and collection.
In this edition, we established Karma Studio, our first artistic facility - a small-scale sculpture and pottery facility built in collaboration with Studio Karva, Mumbai.
KYTA 2016: Catalogue
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
KYTA 2016 brought together an experimental group of 5 artists from various parts of India and 5 international artists from Slovakia, Germany, Italy, South Africa and the USA.
VISITING ARTISTS
KYTA 2016 will host visiting artists through the residency with a focus on developing artistic facilities in Kalga or producing new solo work or a collaboration with the residents.
HOME TEAM
MARIA CUKOR
(SLOVAKIA)
Born as Maria Cukorova, is a Slovakian artist, currently living in Berlin.
Raised in Liptovský Hrádok, town situated between two national parks, she developed strong feeling for nature and living organisms. Most of her works are made out of up-cycled materials or fabrics she finds in attics, streets, second-hand stores, flea markets or under the trees.
Currently interested in building up 3D collages from old tree body parts.
Himalaya is a good home for her ghosts.
The Door Opens
Performance Video
MEET OUR ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
HARSHA V DURUGADDA (INDIA)
Harsha V Durugadda (b.1989) is a Delhi based artist. Harsha uses scale and sensation to address both social and personal issues, through his practice which often levitates between sculpture and performance art.
Harsha’s art practice is diverse in terms of medium, where shape-shifting and flamboyance are some of the more visible themes seen in his works. Technology becomes key to his work, be it cutting edge digital fabrication or new media tools. He has participated in group and solo shows both in India and abroad and has received a fellowship by the British Council for his social art project. He is also a research scholar at JNU where he pursues his interest in Buddhist sculpture and has recently presented at the British Museum, London on the same. He is chosen for Sculpture by the Sea to exhibit at Bondi, 2016 which is a public outdoor sculpture exhibition held in Australia.
Bold and Boulder
Site Specific Video Performance
Column of Sound
Medium: Mild Steel & Marble / Size: 8ft x 3ft x 3ft
Whirling Man
Materials: Indian Rosewood / Dimensions: 6ft x 2ft x 2ft
JO VOYSEY (SOUTH AFRICA)
Jo Voysey (b.1987, Johannesburg) completed her MFA at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2013 after obtaining a BA Fine Art degree at the University of the Witwatersrand (2010). Since graduating Voysey has exhibited works at the Cape Town Art Fair and had a solo show, ‘Remedy’, at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town (2014). She has also featured on group exhibitions such as ‘Scintilla: An Alchemy Show' (2014) and 'Load Shedding' (2015) at Commune.1, ‘Do It’ (2014) and ‘Between the Lines’ (2013) at the Michaelis Galleries and ‘Fortunes Remixed’,(2014) an exhibition that travelled around South Africa constructed by The Bag Factory, Johannesburg. Voysey lives and works in Cape Town.
Malooh, 2016
Copper sulphate, potassium permanganate, gastropect, Sedacur tablets, Med-Lemon, vitamin C fizzy and charcoal tablets on canvas
Kliwon, 2016
Savlon antiseptic, Sedacur tablets and potassium permanganate on canvas
SERGIO RACANATI (ITALY)
Sergio Racanati was born in Bisceglie in 1982. He lives and works in Milan and Berlin. In 2004 he graduated in Milan at I.E.D. with a thesis entitled “ApuliaMotel'Sclero" for which he received praise.
Sergio Racanati was invited by the curator Marcus Owens to a Residency Art Program (July 2013) at Harvard University of Boston with subsequent exhibition at the Museum of Natural History and Science in Boston. The idea of starting and the final result as well is for him to produce something, at least nothing, that can be interpreted as a conventional work of art. His medium and 'the immaterial, used to produce works of art of a provisional nature, challenges the traditional museum context considered both from structural and organizational point of view. Sergio Racanati subverts the conditions of the conception and creation of works of art that appear as a transformation of actions intended to produce meaning through a temporary situation. The focus of his workis given by an interest in the social history of man in relation to his urban, political and architectural environment. Analyzing the side forgotten by history, he reflects on the relationship between the urban landscape and civil development of man, including the history of architecture and its political behavior. Performs a reflection on the relationship between individual and collective memory in the history contingent. He investigates the consequences of the polarization of human existence, including forms of conformity and integration, including differentiation and resistance.
The intent of his artistic practice is to engage and trigger processes of active participation, in order to create a workteam move and a collective that has an impact on the local community.
He's interested in human relations and social relations and is attracted by the the circulation of knowledge in the horizontal direction, tools for sharing of knowledge and skills acquired.
The thematic groups toward which his research range from the redevelopment of urban revitalization, movements and events from initiating sustainable socio-political activities, self-produced by the questioning of the forms of power, renegotiation and re-activation of public space.
KALI, realized during the residency 'Amonte' curated by Fedinando Mazzitelli in collaboration with Southeritage Foundation.
Photo credits: Marco Rick Albanese, Performance by Sergio Racanati, title [VLEN], curated by Giusy Caroppo.
SAM HEESEN (USA)
I had a bit of a different childhood than most. I'm what's called "a third culture kid", it means I grew up in cultures outside those of my parents. I moved to Bangladesh when I was ten days old. Then Costa Rica when I was four, Indonesia when I was about 7 (i really loved Indonesia) and then finally moved to New Delhi when I was 12 or so. Life was good as a kid. Not having a single culture to get your cues from makes for a very curious child, and one with no foundation, no sense of home, no long term friends or favorite sports teams. These may sound like bad things to most people, but to me it's just how it is, and I'll never really know what i missed out on. But what I gained? I don't know; an emptiness or openness, the sense that everything was beyond knowing and that all the beauty and truth in the world was right in front of you. I'm just different, at the very core, I have no culture.
Then I moved to California, at age 15, to begin studying film making. I was always into Light for as long as I can remember, so I was drawn to cinematography and found myself an adept in the craft. I went to New York University where I studied optics, electrodynamics, visual perception and art history (for me, the roots of cinematography and light) and then, once school ended, spent 3 years searching for meaning in New York city. I never found it.
So I moved back to California, and I'm happy, but I've lost that sun that burns in your chest that forces you to make things. That burning seed of art and creation... Some days I miss it. Anyways, it'd be nice to get back to india, I have some loved ones there I'd like to see. Maybe it'd remind me a bit of who i was, who i want to be. I don't know..
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2518746/
ROHAN JOGLEKAR (INDIA)
As a visual artist I started off with a Bachelor’s degree in Product design, and worked for a couple of years at Light-Fish, Auroville. In 2012 I moved back to Mumbai to live as a commercial artist. Over the last few years I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunities to experiment across various disciplines, while illustration and painting remains my main outlet for expression.
Sublime
Series of illustrations
NADINE BALDOW (GERMANY)
How is nature experienced and classified by the urban influenced human? Do we rate ourselves as a part of nature or has it already become some kind of abstract idea? Those questions came up during her several years of residence in the Alps and she is expediting the issue during her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. With her colorful biomorphic structures, Baldow creates a highly artificial kind of nature, which reveals the Uncontrollable and Mighty of “mother earth”. Her installations, objects and photo-collages arouse associations of the worlds of coral, plants, fungi or bacteria. She works mainly with artificial and obviously alien materials to explore the discrepancy between our idea of nature and reality. Her exhibited works mainly are site specific installations which are shown in rather unconventional places, such as the historical listed brewery - Browar Mieszczański – in the european cultural capital Wroclaw in Poland. She has been studying at the Academy of Fine Arts with Professor Bosslet since 2013.
Infinity Area
polyurethane, acrylic, halogen spotlight with color-filter
SACHIN SHETTY (INDIA)
Sachin Shetty is a visual artist and a music producer currently based in Goa.
SHARATH NARAYAN (INDIA)
Cosmic Attic is Sharath Narayan’s solo project. Sharath is a 24 year old producer/DJ, presently living in Mumbai. He is also a part of the band ‘Black Letters’ - an Alternative Rock band based in Bangalore/Kochi. Inspired by lush soundscapes, crisp and dance-y beats, the cosmos, dreamy synths, and field recordings, his debut EP ‘Climb’ is a reflection of where he is at, musically. ‘Climb’ was released on May 10 2016 on Wild City, one of the most forward thinking music publishers in the country.
“The last couple of years have been pretty interesting for me and have changed the way I make and experience music.” “Inspired by out-body experiences, and relationships with a few important people, I wanted to make something that reflects those experiences, and I started working on a few songs.” “It started off as an instrumental sort of, but I somehow ended up
singing on all of them.”
“I love pop, electronic music and nature, they take an important place in my head.” “I grew up listening to Phil Collins, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Rahman, Ilayaraja and a lot of Ghazals and Carnatic music.” “Also, having brought up in a family where music is a way of life, it has shaped me to a certain extent and helped me find my early inspirations.”
“Right now I’m exploring more, making more beats/songs.” I’m new to Mumbai, and I’d love to work with a drummer and a VJ for my live set, so I’m looking forward to meeting people, doing collabs, exploring possibilities. etc.”
www.soundcloud.com/cosmicattic
FARAH MULLA (INDIA)
Farah Mulla is an artist based in Mumbai. Her artwork explores the varied possibilities of human experience in relation to time, space, the visual and the aural. Mulla’s background in science is not only reflected in her approach to her practice but also in her experimentation with different media – from installations to sound recordings. Excited by the varied possibilities of the listening experience her work often tries to bring the viewers attention to the aural through multiple modes of perception.
http://farahmulla.wix.com/farah-mulla-
