Q| Tell us about the origins of the Galle Golden Flea market? A| The Galle Golden Flea Market is a project by the Galle Heritage Foundation, which was incepted in 1988 with the objective of protecting the Galle Fort as a World Heritage Site maintaining the cultural landscape according to its colonial characteristic. In accordance to the preservation of ...
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The curatorial concept of Displacement Anxieties focuses on problematizing the notion of cultural homogeneity in the increasingly globalized environment. It explores how the core idea within an art work can experience loss of meaning when it travels away from its contextual territory. This ‘displacement anxiety’ is often exacerbated when subjectivities are flattened with theoretical readings that are not adequately ...
59 Rivoli is a cultural alternative space which is now one of the three most visited sites of contemporary art in Paris and one of the ten most visited places in France. For the first time in its history, siblings Deneth Piumakshi, Fashion Designer who won the prestigious GenNext award at Colombo Fashion Week 2012, represented art from Sri ...
Q| What motivated the both of you to collect vintage posters from all regions? A| In 2006 a Dutch-Canadian photographer friend returned to Dubai (where we lived at that time) from a photo-shoot he had been on in Bombay bearing a mesmerizingly stunning hand-painted Bollywood show card as a gift for his wife. When they showed it to us ...
It was a pleasure to meet Pietro Ruffo, the artist whose work we showcased on ARTRA Magazine Feb/Mar 2014 E10 at the Colombo Art Biennale. We chose his work as it was symbolic of the content for that particular issue as it revolved around two of the largest art festivals, the Colombo Art Biennale and the Dhaka Art Summit. ...
Q| What is the feedback you received from the art communities and the public about the recently concluded Colombo Art Biennale? A| The feedback I have had has been mostly encouraging and can be separated into two; local and international:- Local: Generally impressed with the quality of the works from both Sri Lankan and International artists. There were definitely ...
Q| You are an art historian, from that perspective can you tell us who are the players and what are the roles that need to be fulfilled to create a strong infrastructure that promotes art? A| This is a very interesting question and a complex one, mainly because in Western Countries a lot of infrastructures are already in place. ...
Q| What is your vision for the Dhaka Art Summit? To what extent were the both of you able to fulfill it with the 1st DAS and the one that was recently concluded? A| Dhaka Art Summit is a dedicated platform for South Asian art and a one of a kind platform where we present the best of South ...
The Fireflies Artist Network emerged from the Women Artists’ Colloquium (WAC) which was started by Theertha as a program for women artists. The Fireflies are Lakisha Fernando, Therica Miyanadeniya, Anusha Jayasinghe, Vijayalan Thujiba, Janani Cooray, and Leyla Gonaduwa. “Fabric of Time” uses saris and cloth of different time periods, worn by women who have undergone diverse experiences in their life ...
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The first book I conquered at age 3 was the classic Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty. My first piece was published at age 7 in the Daily News. I was obsessed with reading and writing from a young age but I only got into poetry when I hit teenage angst. I have developed as a writer, having grown from self-reflective pieces ...
Poornima Jayasinghe Self-taught artist and photographer Poornima Jayasinghe is interested in the question of whether photography can offer the same freedom of expression to the artist as painting. Do I point my camera outwards to the existing world or turn it inward towards my soul? Am I taking photographs of existing reality, or creating my own world? Or does each ...
As introduced in the 8th endowment of ARTRA Magazine, ‘Born Free Art’ is the genre that captures wildlife from the perspective of the artist. Essentially, photography highlighted under this section recognizes the effort of the photographers who showcase alternate presentations of the wildlife that provoke contemplation. Amila Gamege’s photography of the wild is significant as we were able to draw ...
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As a musician, my interest was doubly piqued; what was it that made 15 people speak like one? Was there an invisible metronome at work; an imaginary conductor keeping time? Thinking about it, I think the answers were more mundane, like most music, spoken word too, has a rhythmic structure, much fainter however and open to wider margins of interpretation, ...
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Mark Vernon is a sound artist and radio producer based in Glasgow. His arts practice encompasses live performance, soundtracks, installations and radio broadcasts—often blurring the boundaries between art, music and broadcasting. His key areas of interest are the human voice, field recording and soundscape composition, musique concrète and the radio phonic combination of these elements in works for broadcast and ...
Creative expression is related to every aspect of life in society. It is one of the roots of development, understood not just in terms of economic growth but also as a means to achieve a more satisfactory intellectual, emotional, moral and spiritual existence. Creative expression is at the heart of contemporary debates about identity, social cohesion, and the development of ...
