Dear All

TODAY at 630PM an area at the end of one of the corridors at Clark House, in Mumbai will be enmeshed creating a space of roughly 5 feet x 3 feet with a toilet at one end. Tushar Joag will spend the 6 days till the 30th of May in this cocoon like space without access to the outside world; there will only be a gap through which food and water can be passed in. He will spend all his waking hours filling out school notebooks with the words “I will not lose faith in the Indian Judiciary and Democracy”. Wings of democracy, a butterfly of words, drawn onto a peeling wall, are the fragile utopia on the other side of what traps us.

“Why do I write these lines… am I being punished for thinking that I do not believe in the Indian Democracy and the Judiciary? Is that sedition? Is this what we will (mis)lead our future generation to think about the meaning of democracy?” says Tushar Joag

There will also be notebooks available for visitors to write the same line as many times as they want. People from everywhere are invited to do the same and post the filled out notebooks to
504 Harmony, Film City Road, opposite Shagun Shopping Centre, Goregaon East, Bombay-63.

All the collected notebooks and the ones filled out by him will be posted to the Minister of Law and Justice, Mr. Veerappa Moily.

JUSTICE FREEDOM REPRESENTATION EQUITY

Right to Dissent
Art Exhibition | Film Screenings | Panel Discussion | Performance

An initiative convened by Tushar Joag in collaboration with the Committee for the Release of Binayak Sen, Mohile Parikh Center – The Contemporary & Clark House

Art Exhibition | May 24 – 30, 2011
Venue: Clark House [courtesy RBT Group]
Time: 11.00am – 6.00pm

Exhibition: Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Bose Krishnamachari, Justin Ponmany, Majlis, Prajakta Potnis, Desire Machine Collective, Reena Kallat, Riyas Komu, Sharmila Samant, Shilpa Gupta, Tushar Joag

Address: Ground Floor, Clark House
8 Nathalal Parekh Marg (Old Wodehouse Road)
Opposite Sahakari Bhandar and Regal Cinema
Mumbai 400039

An exhibition of new and re-contextualised wall works, installations, performance art and site specific work responding to a call for solidarity and dialogue to exercise the right to dissent against unconstitutional forms of repression.

Film Screenings | May 27, 2011
Venue: M C Ghia Hall | Kalaghoda

Minnie Vaid | A Doctor To Defend: The Binayak Sen Story (45 mins)
Discussion with the filmmaker (15 mins)
Time: 6.00pm – 7.00pm

Anand Patwardhan | Prisoners of Conscience (45 mins)
Discussion with the filmmaker (15 mins)
Time: 7:15pm – 8:15pm

Address: II Floor, Harigovindas Building,
K. Dubash Marg, Kala Ghoda
Opposite Jehangir Art Gallery
Mumbai 400001
Panel Discussion and Performance | May 30, 2011
Venue: M.C. Ghia Hall | Kalaghoda

Panelists: Dr. Binayak Sen, Ilina Sen, Justice P. B. Sawant, Flavia Agnes. Mihir Desai
Discussant: Jyoti Punwani
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Dastan-e-Sedition | Performance (45 mins)

Mahmood Farooqui and Danish Husain
Time: 7.45pm – 8:30pm

Transport
Bus or Taxi from the nearest stations, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Central Railway) and Churchgate (Western Railway).
Bus Numbers from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus: 14, 69, 101,130
Bus Numbers from Churchgate: 70, 106, 122, 123, 132, 137

Information/Contact:
Tushar Joag | Convenor | Tel: +91 9820234538

Amrita Gupta Singh | Tel: +91 22 2283 8380/ 2288 1080

Committee for the Release of Binayak Sen (CRBS ) Mumbai- CRBS came together to campaign for the release of Dr Binayak Sen, vice-president PUCL, and a paediatrician who was arrested in 2006 under the draconian Chhattisgarh Public Security Act for standing up for tribal rights. After a two-year behind prison, he is was out on bail in May 2009 and again he was found guilty of sedition by chhattisgarh session curt and sentenced for life in December 2010, he has been granted bail in April 2011 by the supreme court , while his trial continues. We as a group continue to fight for political prisoners, democratic rights and raise our voices against the draconian laws and human rights violations.
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Mohile Parikh Center, Mumbai is a leading Center devoted to the Arts in Inia, with a focus on Visual arts, contemporary culture, media and continuing education. Since its inception in 1990, the Center has established itself as an integral part of Mumbai’s cultural calendar, fostering cross-cultural exchanges internationally as well as addressing issues specific to the city of Mumbaithrough illustrated talks, workshops, film screenings, short courses and national and international conferences

Clark House is a collaborative practice about a place, that while sharing a junction with two museums, is alternative to them perhaps, but also their mirror by virtue of its location. It is also an old shipping office of the Thakur Shipping Company, that had links to countries in the Middle East, Eastern Europe the ex-Soviet Union and Japan. Run by two brothers Chatturbhuj and Madanmohan Sharma participated in an internationalism based on the principles of the Non-Aligned Movement. It served as a pharmaceutical research office, and housed one of India’s first IBM processors. The introduction of the Macademia nut in India came through this office. Presently it serves as the office of a family concern engaged in the cultivation of tea, pharmaceuticals and trade. Though based in Bombay, it has strong links to Bihar and Kerela. Curatorial interventions in the space hope to continue, differenty, this history of internationalism and innovative research. Four people are part of this collaborative, Nida Ghouse, Zubin Pastakia, Zasha Colah and Sumesh Sharma.

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Time
Tuesday, May 24 at 6:30pm – May 30 at 8:30pm
Location
Clark House 8 Nathalal Parekh Marg (Old Wodehouse Road)
Opposite Sahakari Bhandar and Regal Cinema
Mumbai, India

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Tel : 91 22 66387272
Fax : 91 22 2218 8385/ 22180823
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