exhibition

Galerie station/ Mousonturm
Indian Vibes presents ENTER
British-Asian Artists
13 September - 08 October 2006
Waldschmidtstraße 4, Frankfurt

Opening
13 September  06, 8 pm
DJs Indian Vibes

Watermans is a leading venue that delivers a diverse programme of events across a range of art forms. For over a decade Watermans has achieved national acclaim for its innovative programme of Asian Arts, New Media and Participative Workshops.


Sukhjit Gill
Animation Designer 

IN BETWEEN BREATHS' (2004) (2 mins)
Combination of 2D, 3D (Maya) and Stop Motion animation. Composited using Digital Fusion.
A short romance, set in a Parisian Café, exploring the interaction between strangers in public places. The thoughts of the two strangers act out an almost telepathic role play, represented by the dreamlike quality of the stop motion animation.


 

'TAKE 2' (2005) (2 mins)
Stop Motion Animation.

A lighthearted insight into the glamorous world of popular Indian Cinema or Bollywood. Initial thoughts of the plot lead the viewer to predict the ending; however an unexpected twist to the main character resolves the film. Storytelling, environment and character design were the main aims of this piece.


 

Sukhjit Gill is a resident of Hounslow graduated from Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication, Animation Department. Her dissertation subject was ムAn exploration into the development of target audiences for animation, from the 1930メs to the present dayメ. She is skilled in 2D animation - basic walk cycles, character design, 3D modeling. She has worked as Assistant Producer (Animation) for the BBC ムHot Rocksメ Series'


 

Anab Jain
Interactive Design and Film 
 

YELLOW CHAIR STORIES '
Video projection, wifi access, chair, screen
"My WiFi network is open for neighbours and passers-by. Free access from the yellow chair." By placing a sign with this message in front yard of her home, along with a yellow chair, Anab Jain, invited neighbours and passers-by to use her open wireless network outside her house creating a ムliveメ grass roots design project which challenges the idea of open networks being largely virtual and often impersonal.

Generating a dialogue with people and making them participants in the development of the design process was an important element of this project. A documentary film and an accompanying book of the project illustrates how a ムgrass rootsメ design approach can re-invent spaces for conversations, at the threshold of the public and the private, the physical and the electronic. The project also shows how the meaning of personal space and identity changes when geographical and virtual spaces merge.   

Anab Jain, of Indian origin, graduated in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art. She is a 1st Prize winner of ムGMW Award for Working Lifeメ, Design for our Future Selves Awards 2005, Helen Hamlyn Research Centre for Inclusive Design, RCA, London. Jainメs main interest is to explore the consequences and implications of new and emerging technologies on everyday lives. People are the 'contexts' for her work, whether it is the design of services, products or interfaces.

 

 

 

Ibrahim Serra-Mohammed
"Night Buzz" and other videos


 

The work represents a new wave of cutting edge guerrilla-style filmmaking. Using wireless camera technology, Ibrahim traveled on a London bus to Trafalgar Square on a Friday night to capture an aspect of London nightlife. The resulting innovative and intriguing imagery combine with an atmospheric sound track to reveal a shared yet individualistic sense of city existence. Filmed before the 7/7 bombings, this film provides a window into a London communal life that is now shattered.


 

Ibrahim Serra-Mohammed, from South London graduated in sound art and design from the London College of Communication. Combining sound and moving image Ibrahim produces extremely emotional work that generates certain ambivalence, leaving viewer to create his/her own narratives. Besides moving image and sound he also works with more complex digital devices like striped down computers and bluetooth connectors to create installations that could not only be appreciated for its aesthetic value, but also be controlled and affected by their users. He has produced a series of short movies, and has worked on numerous sound track and web designs. He has collaborated and worked for Brockley Max Festival which celebrates music, art, and the diverse culture in the borough of Lewisham. Live music night, Switch @ the Mass club in Brixton.



Kunal Anand Graphic & Web Designer

 

Kunal Anand graduated from the London College of Communicatio  n with a BA(Hons) in Graphic Design. He's participated on a wide variety of projects, ranging from MTV and BBC 4 to Stylo Rouge and Shaanti. Communicating his characteristic styles with a mixture of analog and digital elements, his work is described as "a twisted take on British-Asian culture." In between his graphic adventures, Kunal champions the Asian Underground scene through two club nights based in East London , Supersonic Buddha and Mahatmas Revenge, in collaboration with the infamous Shiva Soundsystem collective. His work was recently celebrated at a solo exhibition at Pool Bar, in Shoreditch.

 

Kunal Basu - Reconstruction
Photographer

It was a Monday morning, bank holiday in London. I was the only one in the bus stop. The streets were empty, no traffic, no pedestrians, all shops closed. It was broad day light and the creepy silence was eerie too. Waiting in the bus stop, this idea about a fashion project came to me. What if empty streets were something ordinary and humans were only seen in these fashion images...poster on the walls, bus stops or billboards. What if something like terrorism, war and crime made the future look like this, where humans are in the past and the present is just the same but without any living presence. A world where fashion models are exhibited on the streets like extinct species. A city that speaks for itself, gives us a glimpse of the aftermath. What if this aftermath was the time for 'Reconstruction'...of what's left in this world.

 

Although this sudden creative outburst was dark and negative but it inspired me to do these two separate set of photo shoots and merge them together. Images of the model styled by 4 talented fashion stylist graduates of London College of Fashion were juxtaposed with mundane urban landscapes that we see everyday. The final outcome of this project 'Reconstruction' could be bizarre, but it gave me a chance to express creatively what could happen to this world if we didn't clean the mess.

Text and photos appear by courtesy of ENTER/Waterman, London

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