SALT OF MY MIND

We live in a world of constantly and insistently blurring boundaries. In every sphere. The Art world is no less competitive in claiming its 'newness'. With technology invading every aspect of everyone's lives, there is hardly any difference between an artist and a computer software. No technology can equal the vastness and variety of human mind, of course, but , sometimes I wonder, are artists really comfortable with giving up or sharing their crowns? Even with regard to the Art forms, there is so much of interdisciplinary experiments happening that you can no longer pinpoint an art work as belonging particularly to one single form. Every Art form is inherently inter-disciplinary by nature, the contemporary world is making it obvious and extremely direct, so much so that sometimes each form appears as a lonely island. Artists are navigating between the different ways Art can be expressed and are taking in different aspects from each. The whole world has expanded as the

THE ABSENCE OF PRESENCE DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF PERFORMANCE “Performance is the Art form which most fully understands the generative possibilities of disappearance. Defined by its ephemeral nature, it can’t be documented; when it is, it ceases to be performance Art and becomes a photo/video” (1). The Roman author Pliny, in his work ‘Natural History’, has described a beautiful way of how painting might have been originated – It was born when a Corinthian maid traced the outline of her sleeping lover’ shadow on the wall on the night before his departure for battle. This illustrates subtly the deep human need, and also one of the basic reasons Art is made - to keep frozen a particular moment or make a person’s presence immortal. This is also demonstrated in the earliest records of Art in cave paintings. Even the social systems of marriage and inheritance cater to this need of keeping one’s legacy, one’s ‘presence’ alive. Whether it is painting, Sculpture, architecture or