'Kalakaron ki Chaupal'

‘Kalakaron ki Chaupal’ (A platform for the visual artists) is a fundraiser to support a 100 (or more) artist families through a productive course of action and through an artist action for environmental sustainability.

LET’S SUPPORT OUR ARTISTS TO CREATE A NATURE INSPIRED WORLD.

MAKERS AND CREATORS ARE HOW WE CAN HOPE TO ACHIEVE A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.

In these present times of Corona, the creative communities are under immense strain. While arts and culture is India’s backbone, it remains low priority and low focus with limited public and private will to implement schemes and support the artists. Most of the contemporary visual artists migrate to metropolitan areas from different regions in the hope of making a living. The pandemic and lockdown means that their meagre subsistence gets further diminished.

Their art sales are dependent on the economic up curve. With the industries on downslide there will be limited investment in art which then directly impacts their lives and living.

This fundraiser aims through a conceptual and positive action towards supporting 100 artists.

The artists supported will also get a chance to be a part of, not compulsory, the “ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATION ROOM” a curatorial Premise by Helen Frederick - Organisational Curator, Kala Chaupal. ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATION ROOM is an online platform and it does not entail sending physical works. Artists can send experimental images, texts, designs, robotic diagrams, any forms of collective concepts for innovative environmental change. This is a non-commercial platform and works involved in this ongoing exhibition will not be involved in any commercial transactions. We attempt to create networks of responses. Artists could respond to the transformation YOU are experiencing during OUR worldwide crisis, and the need to preserve life from disease, to protect and restore the world’s environment, its oceans, air, forests and populations; and to activate a creative virtual community for behaviour and ecological change.

SOME OF THE TOPICS THAT COULD BE EXPLORED IN A SITUATION ROOM:

PLANTING A FOREST

HELPING A POLLINATOR SURVIVE

BUTTERFLIES

The artists will be invited to the global situation art project and will be supported for three months to support their art practice, families and existence.

With the current global crisis around the pandemic called the COVID-19, many cities/towns have shut down all public spaces which offer art, music and other entertainment activities, leaving the common man, woman & child sitting in isolation. We propose to get the community active together (virtually) and excited about interactivity that uses art and invites knowledge & skill-based participation.