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Negotiating Routes:Ecologies Of The Byways 2013

The Negotiating Routes – Ecologies of the Byways invited creative practitioners to propose site-specific and interdisciplinary projects in response to the National Highway Development Program (NHDP) which had put land acquisition on fast track and was taking legal and police action against non-performing contractors and displaced villagers and tribals alike. The projects combined research and art, while addressing the visible and invisible transformations taking place in their immediate environments. Negotiating Routes encouraged archiving of local knowledge and mythologies about various ecologies whilst also facilitating a collaborative dialogue between the artist and the local community.

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In its fourth year, Negotiating Routes mapped the various project sites across the country to create an alternative road map, where artists and communities discussed the regeneration of the local ecology of their cities or villages together. Using the nomenclature of the National Highway or NH1, each site was ironically named NR1, NR2, and formed the nodal points of an alternatively mapped metaphorical route, marked by art, where transference and exchange of knowledge had taken place.

The selected projects for the 2013 edition were:

NR 12: Hamari Nag River
Alagangle (Tanul Vikamshi, Milli Pandey and Lalit Vikamshi)

NR 13: Reconciling Ecologies in the Millennium City
Alex White-Mazzarella, Namrata Mehta and Soaib Grewal

NR 14: Revisiting the Chipko Andolan
Sunandita Mehrotra(Ita)

NR 15: Ecologies of the Excess
Naveen Mahantesh, Ankit Bhargava and Srajana Kaikini

 


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