ANW I NEW DELHI I JAN 22, 2016 I 1st Published 1145A
After the
resounding success of the 2013 edition, PUBLICA, the public arts festival, has returned
to Delhi in 2016 in a
bigger, more engaging and more international form. The second edition of the
festival is scheduled to take place in Delhi and Mumbai from 23 January 29 February
2016.
The 2013 edition engaged
over 2 million people during a month in Delhi, and this edition hopes to reach
even greater audiences. PUBLICA 2016 has invited Indian and International
artists to
produce works to
feature in the festival under this year’s curatorial theme, ‘Touch’.
Artists will make
site specific works responding to the local context and guided by the
festival’s theme. The finished works will be placed in high footfall areas
around Delhi and for the
first time Mumbai,
in an attempt to build on the outreach of the first festival and touch as many
people as possible.
The 2016 edition
will be spread over fifteen to twenty indoor and outdoor high footfall venues
ranging from cultural centres, to bustling street markets, metro stations,
parks and teeming shopping malls. The city will become the backdrop for a
series of visual and performance based
installations
created by a range of artists who will create visually engaging, dynamic pieces
of public art.
Surbhi Modi,
Founder and Chief Curator, PUBLICA and Floodlight Foundation says “At Floodlight we feel strongly about
the need to support public art projects in an attempt to enrich the cultural
landscape of our cities but also expose more people to art.
Artists in PUBLICA
2016 include Gigi Scaria, Anant Mishra, Owais Husain, Deepjyoti Kalita, Krishna
Murari, Tushar Joag, Jasone Bilbao, Bhuwal Prasad and Raktim Parashar.
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