Cloud, Tree, Candy floss

Things not planned. // Paranoia+ Impulsiveness

Vidisha Saini — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:14:18 +0000

Project Webpage: I’m there. I mean, I’m here.

Filed under: Exhibition, Uncategorized

I’m there. I mean, I’m here.

Vidisha Saini — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:30:13 +0000

Filed under: CalArts, Exhibition, Project

I’m there. I mean, I’m here. | Performance Invite.

Vidisha Saini — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:30:18 +0000

Dear [John Smith],
A very Happy New Year! Hope you are doing well.
From January 16th to 20th, 2012 my exhibition “I’m there. I mean, I’m here.” will be on view at California Institute of the Arts.

“I’m there. I mean, I’m here.” looks at certain attributes of social relationships over the internet/ digital media. Various reports talk about social media moodiness, transmitting loneliness to one another, and the absence of politeness over the internet. Internet relationships run the risk of alienating people who populate our daily lives, in pursuit of intimacy with our digital network of family and friends.

Moving from one new place to another while growing up made me socially awkward. Unable to connect with people of dissimilar interests or relate to their sense of humor, I became a cynic. Since I began using the internet as a medium of interaction, my relationships with people have only grown stronger. It has been easier sharing secrets, having arguments, or romancing with many.

Technical glitches and human errors make conversations over digital media similar to face-to-face interactions, or interactions through traditional media (cards, letters, land telephone, shouting through windows, knocking on the door, etc.). At the same time, being non-material, such digital intimacy seems nothing more than absurdity.

You are invited to be a part of this exhibition, by being available online on January 16th, 17th (PST 10:00pm- 3:00am) and January 19th (PST 7:30pm- 9:30pm), 2012. I’ll be interacting with you from the gallery, that will also house other extensions of this project. January 19th is the exhibition reception, so those of you are available that day can witness some of the inimitable CalArts madness. :P

Screen Names
Google Talk: vidisha.saini
Skype: vidishasaini
Facebook:Vidisha Saini
Twitter: vidishasaini #IMTHereV

An extension of this project is a blog which both Pooja and I have been contributing to http://long-distance-relationships.tumblr.com. You should have a look at this as well, some of you might find yourself on it!

Do send an reply about your availability. And share my love with the cats and dogs!

Love,
Vidisha.

Filed under: CalArts, Exhibition, Project Tagged: Exhibition, IMTHereV, Invitation

That’s the way the cookie crumbles.

Vidisha Saini — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:01:12 +0000

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Project Preview- Untitled (Performative+ Participatory project), 2011, CA.

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The topical idea of Feminism/ FEMME FOR ALL

Vidisha Saini — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:00:58 +0000

Click to view slideshow.

Last week there was a show Welcome Home curated by Sofia Arreguin and Valerie Shusterov held at CalArts in honor of the 40th Anniversary of Womanhouse —the 1971 groundbreaking art installation and performance space curated by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, co-founders of CalArts’ Feminist Art Program.

Welcome Home is a group show representing over 30 female artists with works of different media coming together to voice the modern feminist perspective. - Sofia and Valerie.

Some of us had a discomfort with the concept of it being an only woman show. And put a parallel/ complimentary show titled Femme For All (at CalArts), which was put together in an open call for discussion on feminism through art. A collective and collaborative show displaying various voices and positions in an open dialogue about current feminist issues.

I believe when ideas are re-created in a different time and an evolved community, their place needs to be understood in the community then (period they were created in), and a similar experience needs to be shared now (in the time and society you are re-generating the experience). Also, while I went through the Welcome Home show, there was a high heterosexual energy that the show generated. And also a singular structure of power. While the Femme For All show was more fluid, and topical.

A critique which could be put in this situation, I sited while re-reading the preface of Gender Trouble by Judith Butler.

It was and remains my view that any feminist theory that restricts the meaning of gender in the presuppositions of its own practice sets up exclusionary gender norms within feminism, often with homophobic consequences. It seemed to me, and continues to seem, that feminism ought to be careful not to idealize certain expressions of gender that, in turn, produce new forms of hierarchy and exclusion.

Filed under: CalArts, Exhibition, Writing

Long Distance Relationships

Vidisha Saini — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:03:00 +0000

Now that both Pooja (University of Reading) and I (California Institue of the Arts) are FARAWAY from some of our lovers, here we share our story of Long Distance Relationships.

Filed under: Artists, Photograph, Project

Kinect/ with Nathan Ruyle

Vidisha Saini — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:55:24 +0000

Filed under: CalArts, Photograph, Project

Vidisha Saini — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:22:57 +0000

“If photography had been invented in color, who would have missed black and white?” -Judy Linn.

Zuma Series, JOHN DIVOLA, 1978.

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Ask Mr. Batra

Vidisha Saini — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:44:33 +0000

Filed under: Graphic Design

iOffer’s

Vidisha Saini — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:15:08 +0000

(Title and description as per the website.)

- WW2 Battlefield Ground Dug Pistol

WW2 Pistol, Polish-Russian, ? ground dug dectector find, in Germany 1990, nice display piece , looks to be 38.cal ?

PISTOL IS GROUND DUG AND RELIC ONLY, CAN NOT BE MADE TO OPERATE, NO PARTS ON THIS ITEM CAN BE USED, RELIC CONDITION ONLY! Shipping by small packet air…….COLLECTOR RELIC ONLY.
Seller assumes all resp

- Nude with a Lion 12×18 Giclee on canvas

Series: NudesArtist: Emile TabaryPeriod: Source country:
FranceSource Year: 190012 inch by 18 inch Giclee print on
Canvas.All files are stored digitally and are ready for
reproduction. The quality is closely monitored to ensure
professional results.This item is custom made per order.

-Naked man sitting phallic phallus pendant nude art

This is a really great little pendant of a naked man sitting. It originates from Thailand and the marking on his body are Thai Buddhist blessings for good luck. Wear if you dare or give it to a friend as big surprise gift.

Size: 2.8″ tall and .5″ wide ( 7.1 cm tall and1.3 cm wide )

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