In collaboration with Yusmarg Collective Kashmir
Medium: Drawings & Performance
Dimensions: variable
Year: 2020
C.A.V.E is a land art project which introspects into our own social, political, economical and existential being. The project begins with drawings of constellations on huge stones at Yusmarg (The meadow of Jesus) in hope to find a guiding star in peculiarly dark skies of Kashmir. This act of drawing led us to give upon the known restrictive tool of language and drown into the sub-conscious to look for different way of our expression, dragging and drawing out intuitive and spontaneous forms.
The process of drawing with bare hands with slit from nearby river and charcoal ink crushed from fire mediated us into understanding how things really are rather than how we perceive them. Activating our sensorial by slowing down our act of seeing as well as perceiving and pushing us to understand, the act of drawing beyond its aesthetics. Thus, to draw become to drag, to pull and to bear.
Credits:
Artists who were part of this project:
Nasir Ahmad, Tabish, Showkat Kathjoo, Owais, Tabish Haider, Saqib Bhat, Mohammad Azam, Salman Baba
Performance Segment did in collaboration with Inprocess Live Art.