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16. Pritika Chowdhry
Pritika Chowdhry is an installation artist and a Forecast Public Art grant recipient in 2012. Her statement for her AIS submission reads:
Tamas (Darkness): A Record of 1919 is an investigation into the history of the year 1919, from a transnational perspective. It was the year after World War I, and many significant events happened around the world - the Treaty of Versailles was finalized in 1919, Irelandʼs war of independence from the British Empire began in 1919, and the treaties and events of 1919 created the Middle East as we know it today. The project also seeks to highlight the lesser known events that happened in the rest of the world, and posit connections between them. For example, the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre that happened in India, the Race Riots or Red Summer of America, the Anglo-Somali War, the Great Iraqi Revolution, the Egyptian Revolution, the May Revolution in China, the Turkish War of Independence, the Russian Civil War, the Anglo-Afghan War, the Third Battle of Juarez, and others.
The name of the event and a map that locates the city and building in which the event occurred have been enameled and etched on brass spittoons, which are small but decorative containers in which one expectorates spit, phlegm, chewing tobacco, etc. Discarded bodily waste (spit) is made to function as
a metaphor for the events that a nation or a people forget, as if history itself were a cultural waste and was being discarded. www.pritikachowhry.com
Photo by Carrie Thompson
16. Pritika Chowdhry
Pritika Chowdhry is an installation artist and a Forecast Public Art grant recipient in 2012. Her statement for her AIS submission reads:
Tamas (Darkness): A Record of 1919 is an investigation into the history of the year 1919, from a transnational perspective. It was the year after World War I, and many significant events happened around the world - the Treaty of Versailles was finalized in 1919, Irelandʼs war of independence from the British Empire began in 1919, and the treaties and events of 1919 created the Middle East as we know it today. The project also seeks to highlight the lesser known events that happened in the rest of the world, and posit connections between them. For example, the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre that happened in India, the Race Riots or Red Summer of America, the Anglo-Somali War, the Great Iraqi Revolution, the Egyptian Revolution, the May Revolution in China, the Turkish War of Independence, the Russian Civil War, the Anglo-Afghan War, the Third Battle of Juarez, and others.
The name of the event and a map that locates the city and building in which the event occurred have been enameled and etched on brass spittoons, which are small but decorative containers in which one expectorates spit, phlegm, chewing tobacco, etc. Discarded bodily waste (spit) is made to function as
a metaphor for the events that a nation or a people forget, as if history itself were a cultural waste and was being discarded. www.pritikachowhry.com
Photo by Carrie Thompson