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Art And Food 2014
KHOJ’s InContext:public.art.ecology program was initiated to create public dialogue around ecological issues through artistic projects and interventions; over two years, through its InContext residencies, KHOJ has narrowed its focus to projects and interventions dealing with food.
About this edition
KHOJ’s InContext:public.art.ecology program was initiated to create public dialogue around ecological issues through artistic projects and interventions; over 2012 and 2013, through its InContext residencies, Khoj has narrowed its focus to projects and interventions dealing with food.
In continuation with this trajectory, KHOJ curated a third edition, The InContext:public.art.ecology – Food Edition III residency was conceived to overlap with the commencement of a separate but related year-long urban farming initiative. The residency aimed to generate conversation around issues of food sustainability, food cycles (including growing, farming, harvesting, producing, circulating, and distributing) and agriculture in both urban and peri-urban settings in and around Delhi. Simultaneously, the residency would continue to develop additional conversations around other food related issues, such as the politics of food and food as artistic medium.
Through this edition of the InContext:public.art.ecology residency, KHOJ was looking to expand the scope of the larger InContext:public.art.ecology umbrella program. In addition to the projects developed in the residency, KHOJ was also planning to facilitate shorter durational interventions that would provoke questions and discussions about food in tandem. Some of these interventions were pre-planned, while others would develop organically through the conversations generated within the residency. Interventions would range the gamut and include several artist-hosted food workshops, dinner-performances, performance interventions, and public installations.
