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Landscape as Evidence:Artist as Witness

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Since 2016, Zuleikha and Khoj have been engaged in an ongoing conversation about the possibilities of bridging the adjacent methodologies of art and law as a way to consider the merit of an artist’s practice as a way of making sense of precarious contemporary conditions globally. Conceived by Khoj International Artist’s Association and Zuleikha Chaudhari in collaboration with Anand Grover, Landscape as Evidence: Artist as Witness takes the form of a staged hearing. Asking how we measure loss, the project premises art as possible legal evidence and artists as witnesses. In the first iteration of the project, developed with Navjot Altaf, Ravi Agarwal and Sheba Chhachhi, the petitioners, Zuleikha Chaudhari and Khoj, opposed the then recently cleared River Linking Project on the basis of the devastation caused to the environment. The hearing was staged at the Constitution Club of India on 7th April 2017 with Honourable Justice Yatindra Singh, lawyers – Anand Grover and Norma Alvares, and artists – Navjot Altaf, Ravi Agarwal, and Sheba Chhachhi. A second hearing was recently convened at the Old GMC Complex in Goa with artists Kedar Dhondhu and Vishal Rawlley as a part of Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa.