CREATIVE COMMUNES INDIA' S ongoing 2nd NATURE ART PROJECT

kheplar bil - a converted wetland from paddy field due to rise of water level as a result of unplanned urban encounter ...... there are lot of wetlands on the either sides of  kalyani expressway cutting through eastern bank of the Ganges river ( north 24-parganas and some portions of kolkata in west bengal ) ..... now the land sharks are trying to grab these wetlands to built concrete jungles ..... the farmers turned fisherman 30 years back and now again they will become jobless ...... and the environment !!!!!!!!! ..... ??????????    

CREATIVE COMMUNE INDIA -- 2ND NATURE ART PROJECT - programme details

TITLE – CHANGING LAND AND URBAN SPACE

One of the most threatening environmental issue of Kolkata and its suburb is the acquiring and filling of Kolkata’s wetlands to accommodate huge disposable income and migrants coming from within and outside the country  ….. this should be treated as one of the most important socio-political and environmental issue of Kolkata as well as of contemporary world ….. 

This project has been continuing from November 2014 since the time of filling of the particular wetland (bheri ) has just started ….

From then regular site visit and documentation has been done by Rajib bhattacharjee and abeshbivoremitra ……. For the last one year we have been engaged in photo documentation , videography , interview , site specific water colour , land casting  , collection of land and nature samples and making artworks out of local natural materials …….…..

Within this period probirguha eminent theatre personality of India and also a resident from this area joined this project

Suresh kundu an eminent environmental activist from this area is also working in this project …..

We are planning a discussion session on this subject before the final presentation of the total outcome of this project … Local intellectuals , environmental activists and creative personalities would be invited to join this discussion ………

Event dates

On  10-11-2014 travel within the  area of the project site ( abeshbivoremitra and rajib bhattacharjee )

On 26-12-2014 first on site nature art workshop and  photography( abesh bivore mitra and rajib bhattacharjee )

On 2-1-2015 photography throughout the area ( abesh bivore mitra and rajib bhattacharjee )

Throughout 2015 many workshop , discussion and works generated out of this project …..

On 31-10-2015  photographic documentation of the change of landscape and interview of local people by ( Rajib bhattacharjee , abesh bivore mitra and prabir guha ) ……..

Prabir guha ,abesh bivore mitra , suresh kundu and Rajib bhattacharjee are engaged working on the final presentation scheduled around January 2016 ………

Date of discussion on this project to be decided …..

participants :

prabir guha

abesh bivore mitra 

suresh kundu

rajib bhattacharjee
local people of that area 

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West Bengal , India

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rajib bhattacharjee and abesh bivore mitra ---- work on progress -- changing land and urban space -- an ongoing site specific project of creative commune (india)

second nature art project ( december 2014 ) titled – changing land and urban space

Creative Commune ( India )

second nature art project titled – changing land and urban space

artist  ----  Rajib bhattacharjee

Threat to the wetlands that are so crucial to Kolkata's survival, and yet so fragile…….

The wetlands enjoy the protection of court orders, legislations and international conventions, but there is no real shield on the ground. In the past 10 years, nearly 30 % of Kolkata wetlandand natural eco-system has been converted into concrete. Another quarter of the wetlands are under threat. Land sharks use an old but ruthlessly effective method of walling up a part of the wetland and dumping tonnes of fly ash, concrete and garbage in the dead of night. Within weeks what was once a thriving bheri (fish pond) turns into dry land and the site for the next ‘‘urbanism ’’.

 Kolkata has been facing the pressures of a growing city, and increased disposable income in metropolitan India.

The wetlands are crucial to Kolkata's future because they process around 980-million litres of sewage generated by the city's 7 million residents. 

According to SunithaNarain of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), the first blessing Kolkata has is its own river Ganga and the second is the city’s eastward slope takes its sewer system to Wetlands which treats it in natural process and the third blessing Kulti-Gong in the east of wetlands that carries the sewer to sea.

Creative commune is engaged in nature art practice since its inception ……. Hence nature is our prime concern  ……. This is the second nature art project titled – changing land and urban space ……. The location of the wetland under threat is ---- near nawajpur , half kilometer north  from the sodepur road and kalyani expressway intersection and on kalyani expressway , north 24-parganas , west Bengal , India.                                       

Warning that the city is going to face ‘deliberate hydrocide’ in future, she said that the ever expanding city is banking on over-withdrawal of ground-water which is established by the presence of excessive percentage of arsenic and nitrate in city’s water.

Implementation of sustainable policies can maintain the ecologicalequilibrium of these valuable water bodies, which, in turn, can enhancesocial, environmental and economic security of Kolkata in future.

creative commune ( 1st alternative art project )

       

         Human vs nature – structural democracy  and nomadic expressions ( a visual dialogue ) 

            nature art alternative project 

         Work and Concept  ,  Artist  -- Rajib Bhattacharjee 

         participants ----

         rajib bhattacharjee

         samarendranath biswas

         puspal bhattacharjee

         local artisans

          local people

        

                                                

           the project was accomplished at kumrokashipur a village in habra near to the Bangladesh border in West Bengal                    where there is a diasporal community of bamboo artisans  .... it was a collaborative project between artist , 

           artisans , local  people and local intelligentsia ...................