Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina at the Chicago Cultural Center ,Curated by Greg Lunceford and Lanny Silverman ,Januray 26- April2, 2013

Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina at the Chicago Cultural Center

Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina
Curated by Greg Lunceford and Lanny Silverman
January 26 - April 2, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, January 25, 2013 5:30-7:30pm
Chicago Cultural Center
The Chicago Rooms
78 E. Washington St.
Chicago, IL 60638

Artist talk with Shelly Jyoti, Laura Kina, and Pushipika Frietas, President of MarketPlace: Handwork of India
The Chicago Rooms
12:15pm Thursday, January 31, 2013

Employing fair trade artisans from women’s collectives in India and executing their works in indigo blue, Indian artist Shelly Jyoti and US artist Laura Kina’s works draw upon India’s history, narratives of immigration and transnational economic interchanges.
 
View the online exhibition catalog (you need flash for this):
http://www.laurakina.com/indigo-culturalcenter.html
Download a pdf of the brochure Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina Chicago Cultural Center
Watch the 2010 video on youtube Indigo: New works by Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina

CONFERENCE Paper Reading 2012

Conference speaker-

Paper titled :’THE SPLENDID TEXTILES OF INDIA: TRADE |COTTON| CLOTH’ by Shelly Jyoti

Forum on Contemporary Theory , XV International Conference

www.fctworld.org

Theme: “Media and Utopia: Imagination, History, Technology”
 16–19 December 2012  
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh 
 India

Curatorial project 2012

‘VASTRAM : THE SPLENDID WORLD OF INDIAN TEXTILES’

Project by: Indian Council of Cultural Relations

Curatorial Essay: The Splendid Indian Textiles: Cotton|Cloth|Culture

Indian textiles were a principal commodity in the trade of the pre-industrial age and were prized for their fineness in weave, brilliance in colour, rich variety in designs and a dyeing technology which achieved a fastness of colour unrivalled in the world. Indian cottons had achieved global reach by trade dominating world’s textile market during the sixteenth century. As a curator of this, I had proposed to categorise the Indian textiles in three categories of painted printed, woven-non-woven,embroidery and embellishments . Further investigated the  global influences on new materials, machine spun yarn for handloom cotton and synthetic dyes for vegetable and mineral dyes .The role  of Indian government after independence  as how Indian textiles sustained with new techniques, technology introduction, research on documentation and yet conserving the traditions.

THE MUMBAI TWELVE -Midnight Tea Video Installation+Poetry performance

THE MUMBAI TWELVE -Midnight Tea 
Video Installation+Poetry performance

AN ODE TO NEEL DARPAN
My video installation for the Midnight Tea in Mumbai is inspired by a literary text ‘Neel Darpan’ (1860) written by Dinbandhu Mitra. I will be constructing a narrative of the play ‘Neel Darpan’ in poetry of words performing and examining the period where the indigo farmers died of hunger and unsung and unheard . The video installation builds on my art work from ‘Indigo Narrative’ series 2009-12.”
THE MUMBAI TWELVE -Midnight Tea  @ Tao Art Gallery & Lekeeran Art gallery , Saturday December 22, 2012

VASTRAM :THE SPLENDID INDIAN TEXTILES' -Curatorial project

CURATING A TRAVELING TEXTILE EXHIBITION
 ' VASTRAM :THE SPLENDID INDIAN TEXTILES'

OPENING: NOVEMBER 17, 2012
MGC TRADITIONAL ASIAN TEXTILE MUSEUM
 @ SEIM REAP CAMBODIA

ART INDIA reviews INDIGO works on a title 'BLUE DYED GIRLS' Vol17, september 2012 edition

ART INDIA reviews shelly jyoti & Laura kina's INDIGO works on a title 'BLUE DYED GIRLS' by Sandhya Bordewekar 
vol17, september 2012 edition

CARE Package c/o Philadelphia-

 New Textile installations participating in a group show of five women Asian artists curated by Ombretta Agro Andruff @-Twelve Gates Art Gallery .Philadelphia USA View my new works @ http://shellyjyoti.com/care-package-2012-gallery-of-works/care-package-2012-overview/

PARTICIPATION IN UNITED ART FAIR NEW DELHI 2012

My works published in 'SHRINGARA" -A recent book by Dr Alka Pande

INDIGO :Works by Shelly Jyoti & Laura Kina @ CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER 2012-13

THE QUILTERS UK spring 2012-published article on 'Indigo Narratives' series

INDIGO CALLING by Brinda Gill in  The Quilters UK spring 2012