Sept - Oct 2017
KYTA
A TRAVEL AND ART EXPERIMENT
KYTA 2017
SEPT 08 - OCT 15 / KALGA, HIMACHAL PRADESH
The 4th annual edition of KYTA will be a trilateral program featuring 16 artists from India, Switzerland and South Korea. The residency will focus on building new artworks spread across the village and its structures and producing new performances, digital artworks and documentation to be housed permanently in our electronic archives.
As part of developing creative facilities in the village, in this edition, we will establish an experimental audio environment for producing sound projects, and as a space for listening.
An Indo-Swiss dance project to be launched in the north-east of India from 2018 will be piloted with an Indian and Swiss dancer, coming together for exchange and collaboration in this edition.
PRO-AUDIO PARTNER
SOUTH KOREAN ASSOCIATION
OFFICIAL PROGRAM AS PART OF
PROGRAM PARTNER
SWISS ARTIST ASSOCIATIONS
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
The fourth edition of KYTA will host 16 resident artists working across a wide spectrum of experimental practices in architecture, sound, music, installation art, dance, fashion, social practice, land art, painting, material research and writing.
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Dance and Theatre
Installation Art
Performance art
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VISITING ARTISTs
KYTA 2017:CATALOG
DOCUMENTARIES
MEET THE ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Margarita Kennedy graduated in contemporary dance and choreography BA at ArtEZ Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem in the Netherlands. She danced in productions for international chreographers like Roberto Zappala and Ann van den Broek. Since 2006 she creates her own work in various theaters like Tanzhaus Zürich, Korzo Produktiehuis Den Haag, Lantaren Venster Rotterdam, Teatro Foce Lugano, Roxy Birsfelden. At the moment she lives in Basel where she works as a dancer, teacher and collaborates with various artists from different art fields. She created: Hirschfeld- dreamers sometimes remember / Il cielo, gli alberi, la pelle e tu / Quantum / Daughter of silence / Interim.
She co-founded Bufo Makmal and was producing and creating We dont create a piece but we hug a plan / Into Pieces / ALL.ES and VIEL.ES. Bufo Makmal has been choosen to be part of the Young Associated Artist at Roxy Theatre for 2017/18, supported by Pro Helvetia.
MARGARITA KENNEDY
(Switzerland)
AYESHA
HASSANWALIA
(INDIA)
Ayesha Hassanwalia is a dance and sociology major, and has trained for 10 years in Street and Lyrical Jazz, Contemporary, Hip-hop, Ballet and Modern at The Broadway Dance Center, New York and at The Danceworx Performing Arts Academy, New Delhi. She has discovered dance as a medium and is eager to use it. With vast experience in the field in the education sector in India and as an experienced teacher and choreographer, she is a communicator, looking to help create a new generation of socially aware and responsible artists
I am an artist and a director of an art space working at Seoul.
As an artist I focus on making stories. I try to express all story that contains specific plots and unfinished stories in a visual way around myself. I un-categorize materials and formats when I make paintings, animations and figures. I use metaphors and add meanings after forming a structure of stories. It is finished with viewers' experiences. I am trying not to throw stories at viewers.
I run an artspace, BAN. Artlab BAN does not only focus on visual art but also on diverse forms with artists from various areas. It was started with a simple idea - not to make a common space. So we chose my house I actually live in. As a present event, Dadal Project is a monthly project. Artists have a show every month for a year. For now, the subject is "Sustainable". We are trying to fine a "Sustainable" way on art as an art device. At last, I look forward to making stories in works as an artist, out of works as a director.
https://www.facebook.com/artlabban/
JAEHONG JO
(SOUTH KOREA)
SIMON WUNDERLICH
(Switzerland)
Simon Wunderlich lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. He received his instructions in art in Germany, Spain, The United States of America and Switzerland.
The overall interest in Wunderlich’s work is questioning the perception of reality in order for the viewers to achieve a stronger sense of awareness. Through the DIY appearance his work turns into authentic “homemade” experiments creating situations about the exploration of the spiritual and sublime, while at the same time lending irony to itself through its practical character of the construction and its imperfection, which all can be understood as well as questions about the boundaries of art. He showed is work in collective and individual shows in Germany, Spain, USA, China, Switzerland, Chile and Belgium.
He works as an art teacher in a boarding school for adolescents and kids displaying behavioral problems. He also teaches TRE™ Tension, Stress and Trauma Releasing Exercises, a form of bodywork dealing with the body’s own system to cope with stress.
www.simonwunderlich.com
ABHINAV MISHRA
(INDIA)
Abhinav is an architect and a new media designer based in Ahmedabad. His practice explores habitat, interaction design, digital and physical environments, history and interfaces (tangible and otherwise). His recent projects include Modular Prefab Architecture, Designing Visual (node based) programming Language for a Robotics Kit, New Media Art Installations, Virtual Reality Experiences and Video Game Environments.
The Chapuisat Brothers - we both received an artistic education abroad for a number of years before ending up in Geneva in 2001, where our contrasting experiences led us to develop an interest in spatial studies. Our constructions transform space, turning interior and exterior boundaries inside out and toying with the perception of a subjective reality.
They demand visitors’ active participation, putting them into the position of being an explorer. These environments break down visual and intellectual habits, testing the explorers and obliging them to trust in their senses. Often compared to cocoons or burrows, these installations harbour striking powers. They provoke ambiguous emotional reactions in visitors, like dreams which mingle curiosity, surprise and discomfort.
https://chapuisat.com
GREGORY CHAPUISAT
(Switzerland)
IKKYUN SHIN
(SOUTH KOREA)
MIRJAM SPOOLDER
(Switzerland)
Mirjam Spoolder (born in Nieuw-Heeten NL) lives and works since 2007 as a freelance artist in Basel (CH). Spoolder studied sculpure at the AKI, Academy for Art & Design in Enschede (NL), as well Stage-Management at RCTH, Rotterdam Centre for Theatre in Rotterdam (NL). At the FHNW/HGK, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz in Basel, she received her Master in Fine Arts with the emphasis in Performance Art. Spoolder is interested and fascinated in how we communicate through the way how we are dressed and how much we are influenced by the world of fashion in this multi-cultural world. What is the language of fashion and clothes, and what makes us who we are and what we wear?
Her sculptures are wearable, sculptural and reversible. Her work and performances have been widely featured in national and international art spaces. In 2014 she won a studio stipent by Atelier Mondial and spend six months in India. Currently she is a teacher in Textile Design at the HEAR, Haute école des Arts du Rhin in Mulhouse (FR).
www.mirjamspoolder.blogspot.com
SHAILESH RAMAMURTHY
(INDIA)
My ideation begins with several drawings that serve as illustrations
of my everyday thoughts like rituals or blueprints and documents
the possibilities of my work. It imagines the construction of a device
that may eventually be an object or exist as a thought. I deal with
complex ‘machines’ and simplify them in terms of their physicality
and function, to make them more representational of human needs
and/or want; just like mechanisms sometimes exist in society
irrespective of their actual necessity. Raised in a small village in
South India without access to basic electricity during my childhood,
my introduction to mechanics during my higher education greatly
fascinated me. This fascination within my practice is applied to
solve queries and answer questions of philosophies and existence.
My practice remains a reaction not only to an object/practice that I
see and interact with, but also its sensibility, meanings, practical,
conceptual or metaphorical connotations. I thereby “repurpose”
objects to alter their function and inject them with of satire to
criticize its political, social or cultural significance.
I previously studied Sanskrit wherein I was fascinated by the play
between an external beauty/ functionality of a form or object, its
inner meaning, references, and the resultant analysis of the object,
is what is embodied in the Tarka Shastra way of thought and is
what excites my practice as well.
SEOLAE LEE
(SOUTH KOREA)
Any kind of existence is sure to leave some sort of trace, which will support its existence. However, when traces come to life, traces and existences are in a state of revival, making them impossible to classify. I portray a world emphasising that which has traces of an existence, and in the same manner re-establish my own space.
It is like scratching on the surface of a three-dimensional space with a knife, and viewing another world.
Seolae Portfolio
SNEHAL THOMAS JACOB
(INDIA)
AKASH SHARMA
(INDIA)
Snehal and Akash are Sound.Codes
Snehal is an experimental artist/musician with a background in graphics and sound design whose work range from, visual art, soundscape and texture based compositions, mix-media and audio visual installations.
Akash is an experimental artist whose works range from visual art, data mapping, data manipulation, algorithmic compositions, and sensor-based music.He has a very strong foundation in engineering and physical aspect. He has developed several algorithms for sound manipulation and processing. He has handled multiple projects on various short films, albums, etc as a composer, engineer, and producer.
HYEJIN SHIN
(SOUTH KOREA)
I was born in 1988 in Seoul, Korea. And I studied Korean painting at university and graduate school. The main stream of my work is a story about relationship. Because of the people and things that I meet, the processes of relationship that happens by accident and inevitability, and the changing things that are related to it, it gives me a lot of thought.
A relation has many elements within it. The elements have not only time and space, but also the subtle feelings of each other and another relationship that is being changed by the relationship. I think the relationship that is invisible existence can be one and also sometimes can be all. I want to express these relationships starting from personal feelings to the flow of great emotions in my work.
Hyejin Portfolio
GAURAV
GODKHINDI
(INDIA)
Gaurav heads the Music Production department at the True School of Music, Mumbai. He has been living and working in the Indian Film, Television and Advertising industry here in Mumbai for the last 7 years. During this time he has worked as a programmer, music producer, songwriter as well as a composer for a variety of different mediums.
Gaurav’s electronic music work (in the capacity of a music producer and songwriter) has featured in television shows such as MTV Soundtrippin’, MTV Rush, VH1 Liquid TV and MTV Indies. He recently worked on the background score of the feature film Wazir starring Farhan Akhtar and Amitabh Bachchan.
JUHEE LEE
(SOUTH KOREA)
I'm Writing about art also a poet
My current is journalist and critic but I have been writing poetry for a long time and writing article about art in connection with these point.
I wrote a lot of articles and wrote the artist's critique of this visit together.
I have a lot of conversation with them and I'm still talking a lot.
Juhee CV
ATIA SEN
(INDIA)
I recently graduated from Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology with a major in Contemporary Arts. Most of my work is inspired by nature and the people around me. Since I have been brought up in a family filled with and wild life enthusiasts, I am constantly inspired by the wilderness, the constant changes that take place, the different colours and hues of our natural surroundings and of course the different communities and tribes that reside in it. Lately, I have been working on projects that involve mirror photography and installations; that alter our natural environment- creating illusions and images that one can't see with their naked eye. I, now, want to take these projects forward in a much larger scale to see the different possibilities and outcomes it can produce.
LARYSA BAUGE
(NETHERLANDS)
Larysa Bauge is a performance artist raised in Belarus and currently based in The Hague, Netherlands. She graduated as a multi-disciplinary performer from T.I.M.E. department of the Royal Conservatory of the Hague in 2016. Her graduation project “DONA series” was selected between 400 graduating artists around Europe for the NEU NOW festival in Amsterdam. Same year DONA was selected to form part of Our Prime Property collection (www.ourprimeproperty.com) curated by Joy Harris (US).
Bauge’s artistic practice is characterized by its diversity. She was trained and worked as an orchestra conductor with such collectives as Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra (ES), the New Ensemble (NL), NEuverband (CH). She composed scores for dance and theatre and worked as a DJ. She is also
experienced in a theater field as an actress and participated in such festivals as Culturescapes (CH), Arena (DE), Stukafest (NL).
RASHI JAIN
(INDIA)
Rashi Jain has trained in ceramics at The Valley School, Bangalore and The Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry after her Degree in Mass Media with Mumbai University. Her work is both, sculptural and functional. She is the co-founder and curator of The Studio Potters Market at The Kalaghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai. She has collaborated with and documented traditional potter communities, mainly of Kumbharwada, Mumbai and the Northeast of India. She exhibits across India and has been invited to international residencies.
Rashi has recently been performing and backstage with Motley's play, Parindon Ki Mehfil. She has also been a practitioner of osteopathy, healing sciences and trained in anatomy drawing at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford U.K. Rashi has been teaching ceramics widely and from her studio in Mumbai, Studio Karva.
She was awarded a scholarship to attend Land Art Alps Academy 2016, Safiental Valley, in Switzerland. Rashi has been involved with KYTA from it's conception year and has set up a ceramic studio facility 'Studio Karma' over the years.
(Photo credit: Lisa Hopf)
