Concept Note

Today when whole countries are being ripped apart by war and environmental disaster, every two seconds a person is forced into exile by inclemency and hatred, xenophobia and chauvinism; lack of human qualities like trust and kindness has become rampant. Ours is a way to stem this hungry tide, to grow in our neighborhood, to borrow from its space, materials, and even human endeavor, and use the same as an open site exhibition, to extend the work of artists into people’s homes and invite their lives inside the practice of art. This has been our dream, carved from our journey in community-based art practice through these past two and a half decades, from which emerged Chander Haat. Along with nine artists from Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh, it was our everyday practice, an essential part of our life, and residency in art for these few weeks during which we collectively developed site-specific installations in these lowlands; home to one of the most marginalized people of this world.

Participating Artists

Aytegin Muratbek Uulu (Kirgisistan), Arpita Das, Ayan Saha, Bhabatosh Sutar, Emran Sohel(Bangladesh), Imam Mahdi Evan(Bangladesh), Imran Hossain Piplu(Bangladesh), Kabir Ahmed Masum Chisty(Bangladesh), Karimova Nadiya (Kazakhstan), Mallika Das Sutar, Marvin Minto Fang (Taiwan), Murshed Jahangir (Bangladesh), Nirmal Malick, Pradip Das, Prasun Ghosh, Pintu Sikder, Prithvi Shrestha(Nepal),  Raju Sarkar, Rupam Roy(Bangladesh), Shulekha Choudhary(Bangladesh), Su Tsu-Han (Taiwan), Sunil Sigdel (Nepal), Saurganga Darshandhari (Nepal), Smita Das, Sujata Mukherjee, Shubhra Das & Tarun Dey