A Ritual Of Transcendence

International Multimedia Art Festival 

Curated by Nenad Bogdanovic

5th September 2020 

The idea was to bring in the mundane the world in central perspective. From March 2020 the whole world is facing a very critical and stressful pandemic period of lockdown and unlocking and again lockdown followed by surrounded and in containment zone. I see altogether a different indoor world from an ordinary point of view, it is many worlds within the world. During this span of five months, I have done several performance interventions responding to reacting and contemplating of the immediate situation encountered both psychologically and philosophically. As a woman who has to fulfil all the domestic responsibilities and also look after aliening mother, I somehow find contemplating space within these territories transcend both physical and mental space by finding deeper meaning in the mundane act of repetitions of same work to filter both conscious and subconscious mind just like a Japanese Buddhist monk who believed that to transcend if they do thousand Day Circumambulation to Mt. Omine they will attain enlightenment they considered it as a kind of shortcut to wisdom.

Through this performative intervention, I bring varied layers within the spaces of folding and unfolding of cloths and its stories it will be sound-based performative work for a 30 minutes intervention. Different clothes have different yarns and different scent attached to it with memories and which strikes on emotions kindles mind to wonder in these memories. It is kind of ritual folding bedsheets to folding clothes and way one arranges them all talks illustrates nature and state of mind you are in that particular time. A chaotic house talks of the unstable and restless mind and organized well arrange mind talk about persons psychological state.

'A performative view of ritual acknowledges the emotions and heightened moments of self-awareness experienced by persons engaged in ritual acts. As Stewart and Strathern (2014) state, "The embodied participation of persons in rituals not only influences them in bodily ways but becomes the actual vehicle by which metaphorical meanings are created and credited with efficacy" A Ritual of Transcendence is a visually poetic and metaphoric act through this I attempt to Finding profoundness in the mundane is a route to transcendence. This work is processed with Jain and Buddhist philosophies to attain enlightenment. I explore, nurture, experience and share this same profound bliss through my work. It is an attempt to traverse through visual poetic narratives.

Dimple B Shah 5th September 2020

Ananya Drishya online interviews: Dimple B Shah

 

Reporter in Action

Oblak Performance Event 

This performance was presented as part of the Art marathon organized by Oblak performance Event and Niv Art Event. This performance is my response to number news we hear and sometimes we find nonsensical news and we also see how the news channels fail to follow norms and ethics of reporting serious issues and sometimes they are overreacting. My performance is metaphoric representations of this news reporting in satirical humor. This is a fictional visual performative action.

Dimple B Shah 2020 

The Nest ( Thank you Note)

Our exhibition ended yesterday leaving behind many beautiful memories and stories to share. It has been a wonderful experience and I can't thank everyone enough for their love and support 
Especially the artists and @anantartindia

Thank you 

Aditi Ghildiyal 

Video Courtesy - Anant Art

ROSL Arts Webinar With Dimple B Shah and Eilidh McCormick

It was a wonderful conversation with Eilidh McCormick about art during Lockdown periods we had discussed about Alchemy and medicinal properties also discussed performance works done during lockdown Period and painting. Hope you will enjoy the work and the talk

 

In this live conversation multidisciplinary artist, Dimple B Shah from Bangalore shares her artwork and practice. Talking with ROSL Visual Arts Curator Eilidh McCormick, Dimple shows where she is working and how she is staying creative in lockdown.

Published on May 19, 2020

Stainless Steel Nirvana -Path of Atmanirbhar ( Work process Video)

Dimple B Shah ft. 'The Nest' 

 

In the performance, ‘Stainless Steel Nirvana- Path of Atmanirbhar,' Dimple Shah portrays an uncanny intermingling of circumstances in recent times. Drawing parallels between the act of cleaning utensils and the Buddhist practice of repetition to attain nirvana, the artist presents a satire on the domestic condition of women during this pandemic.

Her performance was a part of the exhibition, 'The Nest,' curated by Aditi Ghildiyal.

The Weitere Weiterreichung

The Weitere Weiterreichung @Kunstquartier Bethanien,


About the Show in Link Below


https://deborahsp.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/uber-die-weitere-weiterreichung-engl-below/

19-09-2019

Berlin is on deborahsp.wordpress.com


Collaborated Work by Akiko Wakayama And Dimple B Shah Curated By Deborah S Philips 




The further handover

in the project room (ground floor) and in the Druckwerkstatt / kulturwerk GmbH (1st floor) in the Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2

Vernissage (on 2 floors) at 7 p.m.

Productive communication between artists takes place here through the further development of prints as an initial idea.

Artists who work with printmaking techniques often pass on their work to colleagues, so that the following person continues the next step with their artistic handwriting. This approach has a long tradition and is also known as "Corps exquisite". This is about a process of communication both between artists in different countries and printing techniques as well as the resulting works of art. There are limits everywhere, including on the sheet of paper that serves as a medium for artistic printing. What happens if a second print from another authorship is added to the first on the same sheet? Are important boundaries of artistic autonomy exceeded here? Or is there a dialogue, conscious or unconscious in nature?

This idea is being taken further in the project room: from 19 to 22 September there are installations and performances that embody this idea. Works on paper can be seen at Druckwerkstatt / kulturwerk GmbH (1st floor) until November 29.

With works by: Gloria Alonso, Clara Bausch, Matthias Beckmann, Viola Bendzko, Jim Bergren, Hrönn Björnsdóttir, Nina Bondeson-Molndal, MarTina Cesarz, Babette Cooijmans, Zuzanna Dyrda, Skadi Engeln, Lara Faroqhi, Rajan Shripad Fulari, Debrarajzz, Armando Gomez Goswami, Christine Guth, Christine Haberstock, Andreas Haltermann, Robert Harris, Frank Hartung, Claudia Hartwig, Magdalena Hlawacz, Margret Holz, Impremta Collectiva Can Battló, Aleksandra Janik, Heehyun Jeong, Lenka Kahuda-Klokočková, Marion Kahnemann, Jakob Kirchheim, Hans- Georg Kohler, Magda Korsinsky, Uschi Krempel, Marta Kubiak, Sanjay Kumar, Lukas Lenkeit, Volker Lenkeit, Friederike Linssen, Ronny Lischinski, David Lopes, Gerd Logemann, Carmen McPherson, Thomas Monses, Georgina Montes, Aline Moraes, Rebecca Erin Moran, Adrian Mudder, Leo de Munk, Zeynep Özkanzanç, Deborah S. Phillips,Marjan Pipelzadeh, Lorena Pradal, Marcel Prüfert, Jana Schulz, Dimple B. Shah, Maki Shimizu, Ingrid Simons, Carin Studer, Stefan Tielscher, Anna Trojanowska, Emma Troxler, Muriel Valat-B, Luih Valencia, Laura Valentino, Gabija Vidrinskaitė, Claudia Viehl, Akiko Wakayama, Małgorzata Warlikowska, Matthias Jun Wilhelm, Michaela Winter, Kerstin Wittelmeyer, beate maria wörz

Between September 19 (evening) - September 22 (afternoon) there are performances & installations in the project space with a print-graphic approach.

In the project, across generations, artists from different cultures who work in 13 countries have realized a work together and thus exciting, unpredictable results