24TH August Meeting - Report

Date: Thursday, 24th August, 2006
Place: Ambar, A'nagar

The meeting was attended by:
Sujata, Gauri, Jyoti, Aditi, Milind and Swati Gokhale,
Kedar Joshi, Revati, Madhavi, Asha and Kamala. (if I am forgetting anyone, I apologise)

The topic of discussion was:
How do we visualise the forthcoming AnubhavII?

Aim:
To showcase a melange of the arts - painting, drama, music, dance, sculpture, etc.- at an informal venue where the public at large is exposed to a shocking display.
The intension is to keep it short, simple, free of cost.
a. Short - so that audiences are not bored;
b. Simple - so that the message is recieved clearly, by all potential viewers without the barriers of age, social awareness, economical background.
c. And Free so that nobody is excluded.

Method:
The performance needs to be shocking, maybe a little over the top. Though it is meant as a street performance, the tools we use should be our skill as artists.

Questionnaire:
Milind (Gokhale) came up with an interesting questionnaire that would help us think clearly about the entire project. ( I have asked him to email it to me and I can have it available to download in the coming week).
But briefly the questions were -
1. Aims
2. Objectives
3. Method
4. Competitors
5. Threats
6. Communication
7. Responsibilities
....etc.


Subject/ Theme:
Several Topics were discussed as potential themes.
1. Asha had a fascinating real life account with an old acquaintance about the similarities of Religions.
2. Sujata thought up of a more metaphysicla subject - Life, Death and Life after Death.
3. Gauri had visions of using the street and the people present as the theme, the medium as well the audiance.

Other interesting thoughts were - Relationships, Corruption, Roads, etc.

In the end, it was felt that as artists we might be able to contribute better with subjects that we have studied and explored in deeper ways like - 'Line' or 'Colour' or 'Shape' or thereabouts.

HOMEWORK!!!:
We need workable ideas with the above themes, or similar, that maybe from the artists' domain.
The time duration of the event is seen as 20 minutes.
The event, so far, has been visualised as a performance including - dance, theatre, drama, painting and/or sculpture (along with any other art form)- in combinations or all together.

We need:
1. A story
2. A script
3. List of resources required - in terms of manpower and materials
4. Approximate preparation time

Please e-mail your ideas to the address - studio@forethoughtindia.com
and a CC to - aditydeo@rediffmail.com,
sujuwad@yahoo.com, and
jyoti1606@yahoo.com

Deadline: 5th September, 2006

Once we have an idea of the above points we can move to practicalities - acquiring funds, permissions, scheduling work around this activity, publicity etc.

As always, members of Amorphous Circle we would appreciate if this matter is kept closely guarded until such a point that we feel confident that publicity is desired.

Welcome

Welcome to Anubhav II.

We have created this blog as a forum as well as discussion board where we can all exchange our ideas and work out the progress of the next event for Amorphous Circle scheduled for December 2006.
Following this entry, there will be a summary of the discussion, debates and decisions that were taken at the meeting held at Ambar on Thursday, the 24th of August, 2006.

We solicit your views, comments and, in general, creative ideas with regards to the event at hand.
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Check this space on the 28th of August 2006 for the next post.

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