urban flashes and other workshops

its annual week again in college. this year the line up of workshops has a group of self defined ‘flashers’ from taiwan, finland and korea trying their hand at some tiny important intervention along the oshiwara river, sarnath banerjee’s animation workshop, tushar doing a installation workshop and paro coming over for a scipt writing thing. its all a big party in college in the early evenings when the kids play silly games until the lecture series in the evenings. the lecture series being a place where the flashers show us the work that they have carried out in other cities- sapped of all political intent, inspired by situationist strategies, flailing attempts at reistance in a climate that treats them as mild diversions. all very fine unless they become so unconscious of their own positions that they end up being offensively romantic about squalor and poverty in the most old fashioned orientalist way.