WHAT IS ART IN TRANSIT
Art in Transit is a public-art project housed at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, with the aim to create meaningful artistic interventions and discourse in spaces of transience. The project is rooted in the city of Bangalore, a complex quilt of people, places and community identities that are navigating multiple transitions, experiencing growth, movement and development at a rapid pace.
Initiated in July 2014, in collaboration with the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) with a pilot project at the Peenya Metro Station, this ongoing partnership aims at transforming Bangalore’s transit sites into cultural hubs that facilitate meaningful interactions through public art and design interventions.
Initiated in July 2014, in collaboration with the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) with a pilot project at the Peenya Metro Station, this ongoing partnership aims at transforming Bangalore’s transit sites into cultural hubs that facilitate meaningful interactions through public art and design interventions.
A batch of srishti students had worked the very first time at the station. A few works being at less used locations were paid the least attention. The job was to curate the already existing art works and build a connection between them and to lead the passengers to those less noticed art works.
The cube, done by a student before created an illusion for the passenger. As they walked towards it, the shape of it transformed because of the perspective. There was only one position and a certain angle from which it could be seen as a proper cube. The idea was great but a single cube, that too towards the end of the steps looked really out of space considering the amount of work done in the surroundings.
As per my concept I added two more cubes to show different positions of a cube tumbling down the steps. I wanted each one to look like a cube from a certain angle. All the three angles could be different for each one of them. The process took me a huge amount of understanding towards creating an illusion.
There was no proper technique I came up with. It was a trial and error. Each time, I had to come down the strairs to see what it looks like because the dimentions were different for both the cubes.
As per my concept I added two more cubes to show different positions of a cube tumbling down the steps. I wanted each one to look like a cube from a certain angle. All the three angles could be different for each one of them. The process took me a huge amount of understanding towards creating an illusion.
There was no proper technique I came up with. It was a trial and error. Each time, I had to come down the strairs to see what it looks like because the dimentions were different for both the cubes.
The strairs led to another interactive design which was in the far end of the station. To lead the public till the end to take a notice of the artwork we had to build a connection between these different pieces of art. In a group of three we came up with a concept of making these little cubes on the platform all the way till the end . We chose these cubes with a pattern so that we could play with the orientations and also cube as a form looks playful. We thought these playful cubes might intrigue the passenger to go and see where do these end.
All the cubes were done with the 3M refecting tape that is used in vehicles generally.
For me its always been about creating something new. This was something that was about building connections. What I learnt from this project was, Sometimes curating and building connections between art pieces to raise their importance and to convey their message becomes a bigger chanllenge than creating something new from scratch.
