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Dwelling
Charles Simonds, In conversation with Suresh Jayaram.
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“Charles Simonds’ work explores the relationship between the Earth and the built environment; it is an inquiry into building as a way of thinking and architecture as an indicator of who we are. He works at the intersection of sculpture, street art, and activism.
For the past forty-five years, he has built dwelling places for an imaginary civilization of Little People in the streets of neighborhoods throughout the world. Children often join in while he works, creating fantasy dwellings of their own. This talk will include anecdotes of his encounters with children in immigrant and refugee communities in Paris, Berlin, Munich, and the Lower East Side of New York, as well as recent visits to a school near Hassan, Karnataka.
Charles has had personal exhibitions in many Museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York 1976, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, 1978 Germany, the Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1978, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 1979, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1983, the Architekturmuseum 1985, Basel, Switzerland, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume 1994-95 Paris, and Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM) 2003, Valencia, Spain.”
Speakers
Charles Simonds
Since 1970 Simonds has created Dwelling places for an imaginary civilization of “Little People” who are migrating through the streets of neighborhoods in cities throughout the world; New York, Paris, Shanghai, Berlin, London, Dublin, among others. Each Dwelling is a different time and place in the history of the lives of Little People.
Suresh Jayaram
Suresh Jayaram is an artist, art historian, arts administrator and curator from Bangalore. He is a Founder, Director of Visual Art Collective/1.Shanthiroad Studio an international artist’s residency and alternative art space in Bangalore, India. He is currently involved in art practice, urban mapping, archiving, curation and arts education. His keen interest in environmental and urban developmental issues influences his work. He taught Art History at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, the College of Fine Arts in Bangalore and later went on to become the Dean from 2005-2007.
