G.159

11/08/2016

A new semester has begun, new residents have moved into the building and other activities are being organised. We wish everyone all the best and hope that the building continues to be a significant site of inspiration and activity in Yelahanka New Town.

We also finally found the time to update our website and write about ourselves in past-tense.

http://g159.tumblr.com/

18/04/2016

9th - 18th April 2016

As our academic term in Yelahanka comes to an end, we at G.159 are proud to present our last exhibition titled 'Final Review'.

The show will bring together previous works shown at G.159, new projects by associated artists and site-specific interventions across the building.

with
Aditi Rajeev / Salman Javeed / Thanik Jaganath / Ragini Bhow / Yogesh Barve / Talitha Robert / Moakshaa Vohra / Vikram Ranu / Rebecca John / Christine Rogers / Leslie Johnson / Furqan Jawed / Tara Kelton / Rakhi Peswani / Suresh Jayaram / Smriti Mehra / Treeya Brooks / Roshan Sahi / Nitya Bala / Chinar Shah / Poonam Jain / Gavati Wad / Corina Heinrich / Linda Stauffer / Devika Mohan / deadtheduck / Alison Byrnes / Arshad Hakim / Sohil Bhatia and Noel Mark Sequeira / Yash Bhandari / Saranya Murthi / The Famous Artist Collective

17/04/2016

Bindu Menon writes about Final Review and the home as gallery for today's New Indian Express.

YELAHANKA:It started as a wild idea for Nihaal Faizal and Roshan Shakeel three years ago. As students of the Srishti Art and Design School in Yelahanka, they would hold “drawing parties” at Nihaal’s PG dig, where friends would sketch, splatter colours, sculpt, screen films and bond and brainstorm ov…

16/04/2016

Suresh Jayaram writes about G.159 and its history in his weekly column.

G.159 shaped Yelahanka into a site of experimentation and artistic enquiry

15/04/2016

Announcing 'Drawing Party #5' to be held on the G.159 rooftop on the closing day of Final Review - 17th April, Sunday, 4pm onwards.

Poster by Salman Javeed

07/04/2016

Yash Bhandari finishing his piece for Final Review

https://www.facebook.com/events/220389811682567/

05/04/2016

The animal has its anomalous by Arshad Hakim

with
Arshad Hakim

18th - 22nd March, 2016

The animal here does not mean the animal as a four/two legged creature –rather the word is to be read as desire. To see it as the desire that drives us; to see that as what makes us the animal. If that is still taken as a premise, to call a human an animal is yet problematic.

The human perhaps can be closely linked to a system, a system that is in constant mutation being aected by whatever comes in its proximity. The word proximity holds another problem. To call something within its proximity, is in some manner to call something that is close to oneself –this being constantly challenged by the Internet, as we are in proximity of things that are very removed form us, at least in the physical sense of the term.

To cut this circle out, if the animal is a system, it means that the system can be prodded with and the prodding can give you something that you least expected. One way to look at the glitch is to negate it, to look at it negatively, to see it as wrong. The other manner in which one can approach it is to rather have that glitch be a part of that system and to give it that space within the given system so that it too can stand its ground¹.

Therefore, the anomalous does not become what is abnormal; it is to see the anomaly as what stands its ground out of the given system from which it is anomalous to thereby generating an actuality of its own.

¹ Iman Moradi, cites Douglas in his dissertation titled “Glitch Aesthetics”, 2004, submitted in partial requirement of BA (Hons), School of Design technology, University of Hudderfsield.

21/03/2016

'The animal has its anomalous' by Arshad Hakim will be open today and tomorrow between 4pm and 8pm.

02/03/2016

G.159 is proud to present our first print edition - a deck of cards compiled by Roshan Shakeel that brings together 56 artists from Yelahanka New Town.

The launch will feature an exhibition of these cards (open till the 26th of February) and will coincide with our third birthday party (we promise cake).

with
Shoumik Biswas, Deepa Rodrigues, Alisha Islam, Quentin Andrew, Jayesh Joshi, Sarit Nagarsheth, Shreya Bhatia, Tanya Singh, Jishnav Iyer, Mridula Panda, Megha Singha, Rishabh Iyer, Romik Bose Mitra, Aditya Bharadwaj, Suren Makkar, Karan Kumar, Akash Nandi, Kritika Trehan, Joshua Iype, Annushka Hardikar, Upendra Vaddadi, Nitya Bala, Nilesh Das, Nandita Ratan, Rae Zachariah, Sandhya Visvanathan, Bansri Thakkar, Shubhika Malara, Nishanth Sanjay, Anisha Sirur, Nihaal Faizal, Shreya Vyas, Jerald Jeeroy, Aniruddh Menon, Virat Tiwari, Pooja Chaudhary, Madhav Nair, Jordanna Coutinho, Thanik Jaganath, Priya Dali, Rahul Rai, Akshay Shankar, Shruti Anand, Karthik Nambiar, Christine Lungalang, Aditi Rajeev, Linda Stauffer, Shreya Agarwal, Nilanjan Dhar, Sudeep Vashistha, Meghal Anukul, Gavati Wad, Manu Sharma, Kehaan Saraiya, Namah Raval and Roshan Shakeel

The deck is a limited edition of 250 prints only and 190 decks are available for sale. The decks are priced at Rs. 200. To reserve a copy please message us on our page.

21/02/2016

Join us tomorrow as we turn 3 and for the launch of our first print edition 'FUNK!54'

27/01/2016

Consolidate's 'FRNDS & FMLY '16' with so many great artists that have passed through this part of town.

FRNDS & FMLY 2016 has accidentally become our first full lenght release, which is something we could not be happier about. Initially planned as a two-track new years' EP, we now have eight great track