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Landscape as Evidence: Artist as Witness
April 7, 2017 | New Delhi, India

Courtesy of KHOJ
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Landscape as Evidence: Artist as Witness, a staged hearing before the Commission of Inquiry under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952 Khoj International Artists’ Association and Zuleikha Chaudhari in collaboration with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.
 
“I want not land for land but a running brook for a running brook, a sunset for a sunset, and a grove of trees with shade for a grove of trees with shade. So my right to life is a right to my specific civilizational mode of being in the world. And I cannot be rehabilitated or compensated outside a recreation of what life means to me”.

In the early 1970’s, legal scholar Dr. Upendra Baxi submitted a preliminary petition against the Narmada Sardar Sarovar project, as referenced in the above quote, which coaxes us to revisit and re-consider fundamental questions about justice and loss. Landscape as Evidence: Artist as Witness  considers reinterpreting the language of the law through art, by positing that contemporary art is capable of inventing creative and critical approaches that analyze, defy, and provide alternatives to reigning political, social, and economic forms of neoliberal globalization. The domains of law and art both assert productions and reproduction of truth and reality; the construction of narratives; a historical frame of reference; and the creation and possibilities of alternate conditions and visions of the present. It is this parallel between law and art that mandates an exploration into how art can fortify jurisprudence and legal mechanisms with truthfulness and function as an integral factor in preserving justice.

Landscape as Evidence: Artist as Witness was formulated in response to critical conversations with Dr. Baxi and with the help of environmental lawyer Arpitha Upendra and developed with eminent lawyer Anand Grover.
April 7, 2017
date
April 7, 2017
Speakers Hall, Constitution Club of India, Rafi Marg, New Delhi- 110001
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Speakers Hall, Constitution Club of India, Rafi Marg, New Delhi- 110001
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