Jasmeen Patheja ( b.1979), Kolkata, India
People and interaction form the basis of Jasmeen's work. Her works are interventionist by nature and use a range of media from photography, video installation, sound, performance and the blog.
Jasmeen photographs almost 'anything'- tangibly ranging from children, family, weddings, and the city streets to collaborative projects such as the
ongoing one with her grandmother- Indri, and Birth Control (2002) where a group of young 'heterosexual' boys in Leicester were photographed in women's garments.
Blank Noise, which started out as her final diploma thesis project in 2003, is now a growing community of volunteers from across the world committed towards triggering public debates and confronting street sexual violence/’eve teasing’ on both the blogosphere and in urban public spaces.
Jasmeen studied fine art at the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore. She has been a fellow at Sarai CSDS (2005) and is currently a fellow at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. (2007-2009). Jasmeen is also a fellow resident at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2007-2008).
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