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Art Harbour to foster
cultural dialogues and encourage local artists
Kochi,
Nov 10: Aiming to foster cultural engagements between
the artists and local community and create a robust platform for mirroring the
multi-cultural values of port-city of Kochi,
internationally acclaimed artist and Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF)
Secretary Riyas Komu is all set to launch ‘URU Art Harbour’ at Kochangady in
Mattanchery.
The centre, which will shape up as a vibrant,
meaningful and interactive hub for arts, culture, literature, cinema, and
philosophy, will be inaugurated on November 12 (Saturday) at 4 pm.
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“URU seeks to be a space,
and create ways, in which cultural production, artistic practices and creative
forms constitute and manifest the nexus between the aesthetic, the
metaphysical, the political, the economic, the moral and the ethical, intended
in their widest senses,” said Riyas, a Mumbai–based
artist.
“We can list ‘N’ number of talented
people from Kerala who are pursuing their passion for art and culture. However,
they are not able to return to their homeland and settle down with their activities.
My effort with ‘URU Art Harbour’ is to provide a platform for cultural
dialogues for artists as well as local community,” said the artist. “It is a
dream project of mine; I am elated that it is finally coming to fruition.”
The centre’s activities will include book
publishing, artist residencies, workshops,
film screenings and seminars. Also, art exhibitions, music performances,
theater, and other cultural interventions will be part of its activities.
“URU, anchored in Kochi, is rooted to the
cosmopolitan and multi-cultural values that the city has celebrated and been a
living embodiment of over several centuries,” he said.
“Kerala artists have the capacity to convert
their intense life experience to art form. However, they fail to elevate
themselves to national or international level artists. URU will be a platform
for them. Any creative stuff, including financial and political interventions,
will be encouraged at ‘URU’,” noted the artist.
Poet Kalpetta Narayanan and CPI (M)
Polit Bureau member M.A. Baby will jointly release a volume on the philosophy
of Sree Narayana Guru, “Guruchinthana-Oru Mukhavura” during the inaugural
ceremony.
A preview of K L Leon’s painting and a
musical concert by ‘Olam’ will be held as part of the inaugural event on
November 12. This will be followed by a film screening ‘Kesari’ directed by K R
Manoj and a discussion panelled by M V Narayanan, Sunil Ilayidam and C S
Venkiteswaran. Kochi Muziris Biennale 2016 curator Sudarshan Shetty will also
speak.
The venue will host an art exhibition by
URU Residency artist K P Reji and sculpture exhibition by K.P. Raghunath on the
inaugural day. N S Madhavan, J Devika and Anitha Thampy are the dignitaries
participating at launch of URU Art Centre.
Komu is a multimedia artist
and activist working towards developing India’s art infrastructure. His
critically-acclaimed political works have been exhibited extensively in India
and abroad, including several key works on Kerala’s political and cultural
history.
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