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Inder Salim, b. Kashmir, early 1960s Self Portraits India (1994-95) [Source]

He’s mostly known for his conceptual performance art, but I found some canvas works on his Livejournal!

The Sacred: Homelands Festival says:

For 25 years, Salim’s ground-breaking, body-centric work has had few parallels: a multidisciplinary artist using video and photography as well as Internet interfaces to expand upon his bodily interventions, Inder Salim has foregrounded the role of art as activism. Reflecting upon the relationship between art and its relevance to the world he lives in, Inder Salim has performed at different venues in India and abroad, and was a Sarai Independent Fellow in 2006-07. He organised Art Karavan International in 2010, where 30 artists from India and aboard travelled for two and a half months through nine cities in Northern India, with the objective of experimenting with open-ended interactive processes of art. His performance will be specifically devised for SACRED:Homelands.

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PERMANENT INSTALLATION | Inder Salim

The artists performing in the live exhibit select one favourite work amongst the permanent installation.

Inder Salim's We are all Women's issues (2003)

(Earth.Territory.Music. Work overview in photography and text, 2000-2014)

Selected by Melissa García Aguirre

"In all sincerity, I chose this piece because it documents a male addressing women’s issues. I am very moved by his gesture, and it has made me further reflect on gender limits."

Born in Kashmir in the early 1960’s, Inder Salim has been producing conceptual and performance-based work in India for over 25 years. An interdisciplinary artist, he mixes poetry, photography, video, Internet interfaces and bodily interventions to push cultural boundaries and aesthetic norms. He is one of the mentors of the City-as-Studio program at Sarai/CSDS and is presently organizing Harkat@Sarai, a series of open-ended performance art events.

In 2010 he organized Art Karavan International, an international event that traveled through nine cities in the north, with 30 participants from India and abroad. Salim initially came up with the idea of working and developing new processes with artists and non-artists during this event. How do we make sense of the act that makes a performance? How do acts grow within the performer and around the performance? These are the questions that inspire Salim to conduct his periodical workshops, which result in site-specific works aimed at evolving imaginative processes open to the people.

Salim has foregrounded the role of art as activism in India. His work emphasizes society’s injustices and comments on the social environment that the artist encounters in his country. The artist intends the viewer to become acutely aware of how one’s surroundings function on a daily basis, and often places himself in the role of a humble servant to protest against inequality. In his performance We are all Women’s issues (2003), he wore the sentence painted on the back of his coat during a public intervention.

The documentation of this performance is part of a comprehensive work overview which includes a selection of some of Salim’s most striking activities in the last decade.

by Lissi Sánchez

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Try to draw outline of a ‘Conflict’, And you are likely to field yourself in a ‘Space’ Similar to ‘Kashmir’. Try to magnify the outline, so much so, That a porosity enables an elephant To exit to enter to exit elsewhere and beyond Try to imagine yourself a Kashmiri, And you will photograph a ‘glas kul’, Full of fruits of bullet-hole-wounds. Try to vent your anger at Lal Chowk Srinagar, You will blast a Red Paint drum, A work of art will happen. Try to throw shit-balls at Armed Forces on Fateh-Kadal Bridge Cowards will jump into the river with a parachute. Try to listen a Poet’s passionate call for union With his beloved : “ karR-sa Myon Naie Andey MeaR-Mandey MadanVaro “: It becomes politics. Try to grow a simple Water Melon in the outline, A hand tattooed with AFSPA would Pull the trigger twice to give it a pair of nostrils. Try to think what a father said in Kashmiri, today: “he died on spot, his brain matter was out” A political matter would reverberate on the roads. Try to read history of histories of Kashmir A real would shake your myths, resultant porridge Would be healthy for a just ‘Freedom’ debate.

Inder Salim

(He is an Indian Performance Artist and also known for his words)

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