A Convenient Democracy
and other fantasies
Location:
Bangalore, India
Function:
Place for Dissent
Skills:
Rhinoceros 3D. Enscape. Physical Model Making, AutoCAD, Adobe Suite
Project Description:
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Preserved axis- Town Hall to Silver Jubilee Park
BETWEEN THE KALAKSHETRA AND THE TOWN HALL
Every Story is Valid- True or False, Past, Present and Future
Dissent is not just the act of organized protesting
Dissent flows through art, through theatre, through calculated provocation. Dissent is also radical joy
The Dymaxion Duck
nonsense nonsense nonsense nonsense
misuse canon symbols- signifier eats the signified
Mapping- an exercise in the invention of truth?
F O U R
ONE TO MANY- SOCIAL MASS
This is Your Fantasy/ Explode the Town Hall
If the town hall is out of bounds, let us re-colonize the skin. The intervention breaks open the parapet of the town hall- currently merely ornamental and uses it as passage and as stage to be heard, to be seen, to exercise the right to exist.
The dynamic grid hosts the multiplicity of grids that occupy and lets others occupy the grounds of the Town Hall. The clash of these two contrasting geomtries paired with the push of the various city prompts, allows for the project to be as disorienting as the city itself.
“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
-Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus
"The unity of language is fundamentally political." -Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus
Can only bronze statues occupy the grounds of the town hall?
Architecture as Vandalism
Where to Next? / Always a Work In Progress
The founder of the city was a farmer- most myths of the city are about the sky the ground the and the underground.
The City that you can see is only the tip of the iceberg. The underground passages delve into the fantastical realm and connect the project to chaos.
You may escape to the Freedom Park, formerly the Central Jail where people with dreams of Freedom also dreamt of escape.
Escape into the Pete where the noise of the City will drown out all other.
Escape under the Ranganatha Swamy Temple, take the “vimana” and fly out.
This Chaos shrouds the protesters from the law- is Law always moral? Dissent is a safety valve of Democracy.
Government work is YOUR work
