“Every artist was first an amateur.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clearly, with new technologies - like the digital camera, free editing software and quick upload/download options- becoming easily accessible to the people, there are more and more artists who are experimenting with the emergent possibilities. In fact, the ‘digital’ has created new designations for artist, and artists out of iconoclasts. TE
NT is a new open-space that is calling out to young artists who are willing to take the plunge and expand the existing meaning of art practices. At the time when the scene is intersected with multiple media screens and disparate attempts to extend the boundaries of art, it is perhaps amateur and even the imprudently brave who will produce new import of art. Clearly, the digital turn and the omnipresence of new media in our everyday have transformed the ways in which art may be produced, received, and understood. In this context, TENT located in a three storied heritage building at Deshaprirya Park area in South Kolkata, aspires to become a site where young professionals from disparate fields, including creative writers, performers, music composers, painters (who try-out fresh techniques), video artists, independent film makers, researchers, obsessive collectors, active bloggers, cine-philes, publishers of little magazines, ‘ambitious amateurs’ of all kinds et al, can come together to broaden and redefine the very notion of contemporary art.
