Banyan art’ is a non-profitable web space that publishes works of promising artists
form the Indian subcontinent. The works on display are often supported by art-critical
and analytical writings. It is also a space open for online curation, one of the
few spaces where curation could be viewed as streamlined with academic flavor. Banyan
arts could be viewed as an alternative space in the huge galaxy of mainstream practices
where in the attempt to bring forth works from the grass-root level- is motivated
with a reason to allow visibility, discourse and dialogue. A committed artist with
an agenda could meet up at Banyan arts.
Several young artists work within the chaos of culturally mutating situation, where,
to pronounce what is ‘correct’ or politically charged is not easy. At Banyan arts
one gets an exposure to announce the honesty of meeting up the differences and work
as in a parallel dialogue with what may be culturally diffident. Banyan arts pronounces
a situation of emergence of a cultural signifier- or takes a look at what must be
borrowed and placed in a new surrounding to evoke on its own, a significantly new
context. Announcing that a signifier is not a fixed entity within a culture, this
web space expands its purpose to pinpoint the origin and journey of a form and its
transfusion form one culture to another. The purpose of the artists and writers
collective at Banyan arts is to dwell in along with a discourse or create a dialogue
which is as open ended as a newly come wanderer in a metropolis!
