Category: In Focus
The (Un)Making of Meaning (or When Meaning Begins to Make Us)
In a time when ideas of definitions, boundaries, representations and interpretations have gained an almost unparalleled fluidity, a subjecti [...]
The Imperishable Construct
No offense to the physicists and science enthusiasts who might question the authenticity of this indication, but we all know of the famous theory of r [...]
From the ‘Silence of Language’ to a ‘Language of Silence’
In the Republic (514a - 520a), Plato has Socrates describe, in what is known as “The Allegory of the Cave”, a group of people in the dark that have be [...]
The Beautiful Excuse of ‘Light’
“Finding your self - yes it’s this huge park in San Diego where we live – it looked so glorious from far away that I asked my husband what it is and h [...]
The Mythology of Monuments
Driving towards Nishan-e-Pakistan –a newly inaugurated "national solidarity monument" – a series of new adverts along Sea View road catches my eye. [...]
Monuments to the Mind
Making monuments is as much a mental act as it is a physical one. The bulk of monumentalising occurs in the mind, even if it is physical and calculabl [...]
This is Not Made by Quddus Mirza
John Baldessari, Commissioned Paintings, 1969 From Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage, 1967 [...]
Monologue/ Soliloquy
Monologue/Soliloquy: I am an artist, and an occasional writer. In fact, mostly an art or art related teacher/educator and admin [...]
Art Activism – Morally and Politically Correct?
Any art activity that activates, engages, evokes, generates a response and brings about a spectacle technically falls under the ambit of art activism. [...]