Dhaka Walk (open studio)

A performative exploration of the city

Friday 20 January 2012,12:00-6:00pm

Britto International artist’ residency 2012

Diana Wesser,Germany

A unique artistic journey that uncovers astonishing artistic intervention that shift the participants’ view of the everyday through dialogue with the architecture, plants, soil , vehicles and people of Dhaka.

Dhaka walk was based on workshops with Diana Wesser exploring contemporary forms of street art and side specific performance in the urban realm.

The idea is to work on our ideas and to try out whatever comes to my mind. This was a collaborative works we discussed it with the group. Diana did attach a list with links to dive deeper in the field of street art and performance in public space.
We will work in an area that forms a circle around the lakes (see attached image to get an idea of the places).

For the open studio day on the 20th - the final Dhaka walk - the idea is to pass over a map to the audience, indicating all spots where our interventions are still visible and a program with performances. I was free to develop a work on my own, but we should also talk about the options of creating a collaborative work/walk. There was an option to think of simply taking a group of people (audience) with me and make them see/feel/hear/smell my personal way of perceiving the city. Can be very simple things, but we had enough time left to talk about this and to try things out!

Do you feel the vibration?

Can you hear the sound of the tree?

Do you feel the tree talking?

Do you feel that you be able to find animal in the sky?

Painter - Man for Bangladesh

Before start to read, Please look and try to answers these questions-

For a painter

How much do u really for motherland ?

How much your country deserves from you ?

Is your color and brush caring some responsibility for the next ?

Do your movement towards the present,past, future really brings some achievements for your country ?

Say of this work

There is a man who carries his all achievement in a white hut ,,,try to say that I am green with my begin. Which I never try to break out .My hut is white because of my clean soul. When my motherland orders me I shall come and put my all works to her Lap. This is me

"People call me Painter of Bangladesh"

A human being is not only for him selves, but also for his/her country. Country deserves a combination of morality and responsibility.

(Britto Art Trusts student' Residency 2009 -18 December to 8 January at Rajshahi University ,Bangladesh.)

Painter of Bangladesh

He is a man of epic

Now he is in his own country

to serve all his Achievement

the making

Valentine day in Bangladesh (14^th February 2010)

The holiday is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Sent Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius 1 in AD 496.

According to the past history of valentine day, the day is not only for express love for each other. It bears a good morality.Patience, sacrifice even tribute to own country and martyr and many good combination of human behavior represents this day.

We are here in this day for trying to inform the real history of valentine day and our performance is for helping to see the inner significances and beauty of all things because every thing has its own positive side .

Avoiding all argument we can achieve the good things to our life. After all mind makes the human exceptional.

( St Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius 2 in person. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, attempting to get him to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. Before his execution, he is reported to have performed a miracle by healing the blind daughter of his jailer. He wrote the first "valentine" himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved, as the jailer's daughter whom he had befriended and healed, or both. It was a note that read "From your Valentine.)

Hasan Morshed and Nafiz (with living legends)

This performance was done in front of Bangladesh Parliament,High court and in university of Dhaka ,Bangladesh.

Ricall of a brutal sound (shoshobder Nhishobdo ucharon)-31-01-2010

Even there many people were killed by Pakistani military and people so called ‘Bihari’ after the liberation of Bangladesh in December 16, 1971 with the help of betrayers so called ‘Rajakar’ ‘al Bodor ‘’ al sams’ etc. After to be surrendered of Pakistani military there even a part of Dhaka city named ‘Mirpur’ got her liberty in January 31, 1971. Between this short time of distance they killed many of genius without barrier by whom Bangladesh got liberation. Mirpur Bodhoobhumi is one of the places where people were murdered in organized way.

The most pathetic and disgraceful think is that even after 39 years of liberation the criminals are free from punishment yet.In this performing art the black figure with red open window represents the Bodhoobhumi and the four red figures linking to black figure are  the slimily of those down hearted men who are waiting for their justice still now .

Asking for a few questions to this generation they are walking through the path in Mirpur liberation day.

Why are we going to erase the commit to memory of the vindictive history?

When will we get to find our justice?

Hasan Morshed  Co artist –‘With living legends’ (Nafiz,Emon,Sumon,Pael)

Performance .mirpur jolladkhana bodhobhumi

Performance .mirpur jolladkhana bodhobhumi to Benaroshi polli

mirpur jolladkhana bodhobhumi

THE NEXT PERFORMANCE CONCEPT

Caution

What about the child like creation is? What it wants? Is it dangerous for human being? Let’s have a point look

Tree boy

Once upon a time there was a big tree and suddenly it was broken down.

From this broken tree one boy was came out and considered the tree as his father. After his father dead he had searched his fortune to live, but there was no more like his father because the than people hadn’t enough time to plant. So finally the boy feels blue and went to sleep to an eternal dead. And the curses of the boy which fall upon people they never got ride from this endless fact.

But now in May 2010 strangely same thing is happened again. How can we now take care of this tree child?

Basically we are creating all of ecological disaster or tragedy.

If we will be converted ourselves in sincerity regarding our nature and society we can take care of it. As a social being we should not be egotistic about nature.