often Im asked, "but what kind of participation?" The project is open to ideas. Right now I imagine using/ borrowing from popular media to create the work. I imagine intervention through performance. I also imagine the participants going through a workshop process and wanting to create something else altogether. Suits me fine! 

(bad photo) presentation at Chitra Kala Parishat. Bangalore. 

Bhuvana ( blore uni) disagrees with Proff Rao, " once again in the presence of the male, whether he is gay or not, the woman will be silenced..."

"IS THE PROJECT THEREFORE ABOUT THE STREET?
ABOUT WOMEN ONLY? OR ABOUT ONLY WOMEN ON THE STREET?"

Professor Ram Das Rao, Bangalore University feels that the project should be an inclusive one where even the male prostitute should be given the space to 'testify'.  

In its current phase Blank Noise is seeking wider participation. Presentations about the project are being made to college students around bangalore. ( this pic was taken at bangalore university)  

HOT NEWS: TAAZA SAMACHAR 

BLANK NOISE . phase 1:

The workshops enabled the group of girls to explore their public and private identities. At the end of the workshop there were nine participants left and ready to share their experiences with an audience, which they believed was either victim or perpetrator of street harassment.

The photograph above is from the exhibition at Srishti. Each participant has chosen to illustrate her relationship with the public space.

Hot News Taaza Samachar, in which I enacted a news reader that repeatedly read out daily rape reports and in the process was becoming a victim of what she was reading. She, the news reader was in denial of what was being done onto her. At the end she asked the audience “Is this news for you?”

In 1998, the number of rapes reported were 15, 031 (which is 1.5% of the number of crimes reported) and the number of molestations reported are 31, 046 (3.2%). http://www.indialawinfo.com/rightofwomen.html

an ongoing project: 'DID YOU ASK FOR IT'........."DID YOU ASK FOR IT? ” When attacked on the streets the first thing we look at is our clothing. We question if we ‘provoked’ or ‘asked to be made victim’. The garment worn at that point of time contains a memory and is witness to an experience thus becoming a testimony."

also check out http://www.chrisbarr.net/apr_7.htm

sept 2004. it was decided that the clothes would ne