DROP II/III /in Sarai Reader 09 -The Exhibition curated by Raqs Media Collective Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India 2012 and 2013 > > >
This time I deliver DROP, a large white sheet of newspaper with a set of instructions and a spray bottle to an exhibition opening curated by Raqs Media Collective at Devi Art Foundation in Delhi. Viewers are invited to interact with it in a certain way. In this case, my role as an artist is to be an initiator and a catalyst, and to then back away, so that the processes I initiated could proceed even without my involvement. For the second repetition Manmeet Devgun prepares the paper and offers more spray bottles for the re-enactment. Even with the same instruction manual the work appears in various ways.
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