Featured Project: Publications

1. Contemporary Public Art Practices in India brings together 24 artists and groups woven together in historical and contemporary time, multidisciplinary collectivism, collaboration, activism, and public pedagogy. Conceived and researched by the artist and pedagogue, Sharmila Samant, and published in the form of a Yearbook by the Takshila Educational Society, it sets forth generative dialogues around site-responsive practices, community-based art, and co-produced knowledge production through creative labour.

2. The Mumbai Reader: 2022-23 brings together stories of civil society and the city. Published by the Urban Research Design Institute, this edition brings together a historical timeline of civic action and celebrates citizen agency and stories of change. “While documenting successes, the Reader also highlights the challenges of urban change”, and presents a “vivid tapestry woven from the threads of activism, history and artistic expression.” (From the foreword by Anuradha Parmar, UDRI). This reader is available online on https://www.udri.org/.

 

 

We express our gratitude to the Takshila Educational Society and UDRI for publishing our work amongst so many inspiring writings of change and hope that engage with issues which concern us all. “From Up There They Were Just Numbers” continues with CASP and Kush pursuing research and affinities locally and will take on a variety of forms by adding to our existing archive and future listening environments.