basement parking

ok
i know i have been bad- really bad..
been trying to figure something out for the space.. and everything that i can figure out is so, i dont know - been there already- done that already.. and that too in the same space..
comments on the 'horse' - the elusive one thats now in the zoo.. the symbolism of the horse - machismo etc etc.. or the one about the concept of the 'art district'- good marketing.. loved kausik and paul piece years back about it. miss seeing it again.. in fact miss seeing a lot of things that once happened there.. and since we freeze our cities for preservations sake- maybe we should freeze out comments on it too- they will continue to be relevant for posterity..
a multi layered expanidible basement i think... underneath the entire parking lot.. that collects all the pieces created for the festival.. u think?

i remember the architect of the kalaghoda art-district saying once- to a suggestion that there should be spitoons as part of this areas street furniture...
"spitoons!!! do we really need them? such a disgusting habit! who cleans the spitoons anyways?"
so i am putting my drawing of garbagebin/communitity space for dogs crows and flies...

Public Space for Dogs and Crows and Flies 

Culture on Tap 

power symbol?

Traditionally the public sculptures are large and it is about the power, power that puts it there. Can that be subverted? Does the scale have to do with it? Suppose there is a commission, would the only way be to refuse it? Even in imagination, does the act of just installing it, makes it a power symbol?

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Public?

In my mind the idea of an 'art festival' is in direct contradiction with the idea of Public Space. Although an art festival generates activity, the whole thing being curated becomes a space of dissemination of culture by the people with the power to assume what culture is. Nothing Ridiculous can happen in an art festival. Should something ridiculous be conceived, by a ridiculous person, it would be struck of the list of carefully selected, incredibly well written, works that are to be displayed.
Public space to me, is that space where people can perform their ridiculous ideas at leisure and the only oppossition they receive is no support from their surroundings.
From the location to the curation to the dissemination Kala Ghoda is culture on tap.

Found this photo in the studio. Nayan clicked it few years back. I often imagine the place this way but hardly ever saw this view in reality.