Selected Research Projects
tate modern
The film, tate modern, offers a radical subjective re-interpretation of the spatial dynamics of the Tate Modern Museum, London. The film perceives the Tate Modern’s emptiness and a spectator’s experience of it, as integral to its art, as well as its architecture.
tate modern:
premiered at The Carnival of E-Creativity, New Delhi, 2006;
screened on Sky TV/Propeller TV, UK, 2006;
presented in the Triangle Gallery, London, 2006;
to be shown at other galleries and festivals in 2007;
viewable as podcast.
To view the film as podcast:
If you already have iTunes you can access the film directly via this link:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=119002027&s=143444&i=2151559
Otherwise:
1. Download iTunes by going to http://www.apple.com/uk/itunes
and clicking on ‘Free Download’.
2. Once in iTunes: Click on ‘Podcasts’ (left hand side of
page).
3. In the search box, (left hand side of page), type in ‘spaces’.
4. The film’s Information Page comes up. Click ‘subscribe’
to begin downloading and viewing.
spaces
tate modern is the first film in a series, entitled
spaces, on the subject of art, architecture, and philosophy.
Films and Podcasts to follow have as subjects: the Guggenheim, Bilbao;
the Guggenheim, New York; The British Museum; Tate Britain; the rock–cut
edifices of Ellora, India; the Water Temple, designed by Tadao Ando.
zen gardens without the ‘zen’:
a series of 'gardens', from 2003-8, for galleries, public spaces, and
private homes, investigating spectatorship and active witnessing; and
re-conceptions of psychospheres,
void, and emptiness-presence, using contemporary materials and techniques.
foyer installation
2003 Riverside Studios, London
First in the garden series: A time based over fifteen days, primarily
of and for Riverside Studios’ staff and regular spectators, re-conceiving
Tantric and Zen art in contemporary space.
The delicate touch of the installation makes room for social interaction and allows us to share its humour in the present tense of the ordinary. As we move elsewhere towards something, the foyer works as a slow fuse for contemplation...
getting to know you
group exhibition, Royal College of Art, 2005
Second in the garden series: an installation, luminescence, based on research
in 2004 in the Nags Head Estate, near Columbia Road, Shoreditch.
cute micro garden
in Imagination, Function, Production design exhibition
The Study Gallery, Poole, UK
19 March – 14 May 2005
Third in the garden series: a garden for people who have no garden.
luminescence
a garden for the Nag’s Head Estate Shoreditch, London
Fourth in the garden series, working with RCA and Peabody Trust.
art without artists -
the shapes design studio
From 2004 Ajaykumar has collaobrated with an architect and product designer to create furniture, lighting and garden designs that comes into 'being' through the play of others. This work elcits 'a scenogrpahy of the home', and an 'art of the spectator'.
Exhibtions have included:
Imagination, Function, Production: exhibiting
three works
The Study Gallery, Poole, UK, 2005
This exhibition ‘explores and celebrates the advancements in design
excellence’.
100% Design: exhibiting two works,
Earls Court, London, UK, September 2004
See: http://www.shapes-design.com
pages of madness a digital art work for
the net and gallery exposition, originally spotlighted by Turbulence,
and currently viewable at:
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/ajaykumar/
This work re-conceives, in digital media, notions of concrete poetry; as well as the practices of the ciné-roman filmmakers who made films ‘to read’. Explores themes of difference, race, and disability.
This art work has also been exhibited at:
• ISEA2006/ Zero One San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge,
USA, August, 2006;
• The Carnival of E-Creativity, New Delhi, 2006
• National Film Theatre London' 6th Disability Film Festival, 2004;
• Rampton High Security Hospital, to staff and patients 2005;
• UK Community TV Channel's Mad for Arts Online Gallery, 2004-2006;
• Generative Arts Festival, Milan 2004.
pages of madness was funded by a Millennium Award from the Peabody Trust suchas at the National Film Theatre in 2004.
iPak - 10,000 songs, 10,000 images, 10,000 abuses
iPak - 10,000 songs, 10,000 images, 10,000 abuses,
currently in devlopment, is a series of short films and a net art work
to be launched by Turbulence in: 2007.
iPak, after pages of madness, is the second in a series
of net art works that considers the visuality of text in a net that is
dominated by text. iPak’s development has been supported by an Arts
Admin Digital Bursary, and the Arts Council of England.
Yerma’s Eggs multi-media scenography
Riverside Studios, London & Explore@Bristol, 2002-3
ecology park site-specific performance
art performance in Mile End Ecology Park with Tetsuro Fukuhara and Company.
‘Dancing on the Borderlines Festival’. 2003
spectator, choose whatever theme you feel
site-specific performance art a series of deliberately unannounced performances
in architectural locations with Tetsuro Fukuhara and Company. 2000-1
cyber-gastronomic experience installation
- Spiral Garden Tokyo, 1997-8
panOptiKa installation 1997-8
The Untouchables live art and site-specific
installation An Arts Council of England Live Art Commission, 1997-8
A Woman in Southall film, 1997-8
Tales of Love and War film, 1996-7
Macbeth - Stage of Blood site-specific
performance, 1995-7
Tabula Rasa trans-media site-specific
installation Broadway Centre Hammersmith, London, 1996-7
The Chikamatsu Project research and presentation
Public presentation at Tokyo International Festival, Amagasaki International
Festival, Japan. 1994-6
Dogs of Desire art for web and site-specific
installation, 1994-5
Hope Beyond the Wall music-theatre Winner
of 1993 Sunday Times Fringe Theatre Award http://www.doollee.com/Index1.htm
Co-Director of International Arts Productions Ltd,
1991-1998
The company undertook award-winning, critically acclaimed practical
research, includingthe above-mentioned proejcts – broaching trans-disciplinarity,
trans-culturalism, site-specificity, performance/live art, spectatorship,
re-conception of art in public space, art of and for its community. Education
projects were integral to this work. Ajaykumar's work here involved writing,
directing, design, performing, producing.
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