Poorna Katha

Invisble art(ists)

Read this one carefully, folks. Or, better still, read it out loud - to a beloved and bored friend, parent or sibling.

From here:

It actually looks like the gallery just got robbed, but don’t get taken in by that. Empty sculpture stands and canvases are the main attractions of a new genre of art that’s there by not being there - and it’s called invisible art! And it’s shaking up the culture world for sure.
Come June, stark white canvases and more will be displayed at the Hayward Gallery in London in a first-of-its-kind show that explores invisibility and emptiness. And it’s not cheap either, as invisible art is said to fetch up to US$10,000.

Much ado about ‘nothing’

Can nothingness excite? It seems so. The premise is that art is about firing the imagination rather than simply viewing objects. So you have artworks that include a movie shot with no film, invisible ink drawings, a piece of paper that an artist stared at for 1,000 hours over a period of five years, and a plinth once stood on by Andy Warhol, supposed to be viewed in the presence of the artist’s ‘celebrity aura’!

A website quoted gallery director Ralph Rugoff, as saying, “It leaves so much to your imagination. It’s sort of like the power of radio compared to television - in great radio drama you’re inventing characters in your head. There is a lot of invisible art out there, there is a lot of art you’re never going to see.

Interestingly, the viewer plays an interactive role in it too!
While the world is sitting up and taking note of ‘blank art’, Hollywood actor James Franco was so excited by the idea that he teamed up with invisible artists Brainard and Delia Carey to launch the Museum of Non-Visible Art (MONA), composed entirely of ideas, and described as “an extravaganza of imagination”.

You may find a 404 error when you come to this blog next. Feel free to stare at it.

Also! I will be staging a play tomorrow.

It will be at No.2 Vivekanandar Street, Dubai Main Road, Dubai. You are all invited.

P.S. How did James Franco even find Brainard and Delia Carey (I mean, literally. How did he see them?)

Happiness

.. well because I can’t be bothered with anything less profound :P

What makes me happy? And by extension, what makes most people happy?

It looks like the good times are when I think I am moving towards something better. Doesn’t matter if things are a little bleak, I am ok if I think I know how to fix it. I can live with a dead boring job if it means it leads to better things. I can stand thinking of myself as a coward if I know how to be more brave. I don’t mind a tough relationship with the family/friends, if there is a way out. And none of these plans have to work - I just need the comfort of moving towards. Even dead ends have walls you can scale.

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Appa meets the tinyTot

When we were on holiday, Appa saw this little fellow bawling his head off and saying “Leave me alonnnnne”. In true desi style, we discovered that the families knew each other, even though we were in a different country, in a place not frequented by tourists. The desi network needs to become a heritage monument.

The mums started talking and it turned out the kid was cranky because he hadn’t had roti in a few days and was feeling ‘quite fed up’. The next morning though, we met them again at breakfast and the brat had turned into an angel overnight. Appa can’t leave well enough alone, so he koshted him

Appa: No crying today?

tinyTot: No. No crying

Appa: Not hungry then?

tT: I am hungry

He seemed quite proud of this

Appa: Oh ho! How come you aren’t crying then?

tT: Oh! (face clears) that’s because I grew up

Appa takes a while to remove the !!! from his face. I am Charmed

You know, I fully see why sleep deprivation is used as a torture technique. I bust my knee yesterday and couldn’t find any comfortable position to sleep in. In spite of being terribly terribly sleepy.

Eyes drooping shut, mind closing down, breathing is deeper, slower…. and POING! pain in knee.

Wide awake.

:grumble grumble:, readjust position, slowly whoooosh down sleep canal and OWW!

Lather, rinse, repeat

This went on till WhatNonsenseIsThisICantBelieveItIs2am. Only silver lining was that there was no one nearby.

Silver lining for them, obviously. I would have been as charming as a baby tiger who has just got her teeth sharpened

“You know what the big news is?”

“What what?? I am all agog”

I was hoping for some juicy gossip about the immediate social circle, only to hear~

“Aishwarya Rai is still fat 6 months after giving birth”

“Dei! Where is this big news?”

“It seems to be the only article my friends on fb are reading. And, wait for it, it’s now linked to the Washington Post”

“Wth.. Poor girl”

“Yeah, she can’t even get fat in peace”

Much truth~