sreejata roy
Sreejata Roy
(India)
As an artist with a particular interest in community-related
projects, I have been deeply interested in exploring the new labour
practices that have developed in the neo-liberal political/economic
environment, as an articulation and consequence of globalisation,
and the impact of such practices upon deeply gendered work
experience.
For almost a decade I have been using classical/conventional as well as mixed and digital media, informed by a theoretical framework, to produce narratives about such experience.
During my M.Phil. study in media art at the Coventry School of Art
and Design, Coventry University, UK from 2001-2005, I have evolved a
culturally embedded form of personal practice within her larger
investigation of socio-cultural issues via oral history and
ethnography, the narration of daily life, and the formation of
subjectivity. I initially logged my observations in a diary. These
notations – sometimes dense and analytical, at other times
fragmented marginalia – functioned as core material for reflection
and later articulation through various interlinked media forms and
formats.
My present practice involves with Ankur Society for Alternatives in
Education working with young people for past four years through
variety of forms of art practices connected to public spaces in the
low income colonies in New Delhi.
I am awarded with 'Public Art' grant from FICA and completed
reshaping a community park in one of those low income colonies. I
have also worked exploring community and public spaces in other
parts of India and UK.
I am an independent artist working in New Delhi, India. Presently
associated as a researcher for IFA ( Indian Foundation for Arts)
Project with CCMG( Centre for Culture Media and Governance) Jamia
Millia Islamia University.
