desi people
i am a desi diaspora chick interested in people and their browness in various forms (especially those that might deviate in different ways from the slick bollywood images that i/we regularly consume)
browness is a fluid term used by many in many different ways. i generally use it as we did growing up; desi peeps
Art is resistance
Art is our tool
“It is our duty to fight for freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love and protect each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”-Assata Shakur
(Source: kalisherni, via lucidstrike)
beautiful. had to reblog.
For his latest series, ‘An Economy of Grace’, Nigerian-American artist Kehinde Wiley features women as his subjects - a first in the history of his works.
Currently on show at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, Wiley teamed up with another current artistic force and the man behind the recent surge in success for French label Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci, who designed the costumes for the subjects in all of Wiley’s pieces.
Read a Huffington Post interview with Wiley about this exhibition.
(via nakedpancakeshindig)
Meera Sethi 2011. Indu (Sariscape series). Acrylic, charcoal and fabric on canvas, 180 in x 44 in. ///
Prithvi Mudra” TEE. Hand-drawn. Silkscreened on.
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.” - Roy
liberation.
#art
#desi
#portrait
#tape
#aakash nihlani
My mother was a janitor, my father drove a trash truck and my stepfather still works at the post office. So I grew up with a family determined to make something out of nothing by working very hard,” says Monáe. “They inspired me to follow my dreams, to create music for the working men and women who are coming up against life’s obstacles and need to be uplifted. Music found me – this was my purpose. So when I was 11 years old, I sat my parents down and told them what I wanted to do and that they must all get on board.” […]
Heavily inspired by Fritz Lang’s 1927 German expressionist film Metropolis, which used an urban dystopia to berate capitalism, she too has invented a not-too-distant future in order to comment on the confines within she is expected to perform and present herself as a black female artist. “As an African-American woman, as an immigrant, wherever I am, I’m always the minority,” she explains. “So I came up with the concept of the android as the ‘other’ in society. I’ve been studying the theory of technological singularity, which predicts that as advances in technology become faster, there will come a point when robots will be able to map out the brainpower of humans and recreate our emotions. I’m posing the question – how are we going to live with the ‘other’? Are we going to treat them inhumanely, teach our children to fear them?
"Janelle Monae
—”Watch This Space,” Arise Magazine, Issue 11 via racialicious
(Source: racialicious.com)
Visual artist María María Acha is taking the issue of gender equality to the streets of Mexico. Through visual biographies of remarkable women who have worked for gender equality, she aims to rescue, inform and sensitize people to the history of women’s work in the world.
Vandana Shiva Dehra Dub - India, 1952. Physicist, philosopher, writer and ecofeminist (ecofeminism is the power of the ecology, of the earth and nature to create a more sustainable, just and peaceful world by means of non-violence.) In the 70s she participated in the Chipko movement, principally formed by women who adopted the tactic of ecological protest, which consisted of staying in place embracing trees to avoid their being cut down. In 1982 she founded the Foundation for Scientific, Technological and Ecological Research, which counts among its initiatives the promotion and diffusion of ecological agriculture, study and maintenance of biodiversity, promoting the commitment of women to the ecological movement, or the regeneration of democratic sentiment.
Poster found at the International Museum of Women circa 2008.
Sameer Farooq and Mirjam Linschooten. The Museum Of Found Objects: Toronto (Maharaja and –––)
It Ain’t Over till the Fat Lady Sings
2009
Acrylic on paper and cardThese pop-up paper constructed works demand an interactivity that invites the viewer to enter a magical, three-dimensional space, which sets the stage for ideas representing nostalgic memorabilia, the romanticism of studio poses in old family photographs, and the exaggerated expressions borrowed from film
