MARKET INTERACTIONS a solo show by Efrat Attias (artist in residence from Israel) A display of works done in Pondicherry during the one month residency at Tasmai and a tête-à-tête with the artist on the 5th April, 2015, Sunday from 4 p.m onwards Efrat Attias’ work is a series of portrait paintings, representing Pondicherry’s fruit […]
The Auroville Festival website is launched! http://festival.auroville.org/ Auroville, the experimental city in the making at the Coromandel coast some 3 hours drive below Chennai, has been quietly building itself for almost 50 years and now looks forward to give Chennaiites some insights into its unique functioning, challenges and achievements. The ‘What is Auroville’ festival, to […]
DEEPAM CELEBRATION at Deepam School Friday 5th December at 6 pm On full moon we will light more than a thousand oil-lamps which create a celestial atmosphere. Karthigai Deepam has for centuries been celebrated. It originates from the legend of Lord Shiva who had transformed himself into a divine flame. On this night in Tiruvannamalai […]
Aurovilian sculptor Henk van Putten is sending news from Poland: REDUCTIVE EXHIBITION curated by Roland de Jong Orlando. The Indian transporter managed it to deliver my works with a delay of exactly three months: My sculptures arrived at the tenth of August due to incorrect documents. The Polish customs are severe as everywhere. But now […]
Chloe travels between Auroville and France where she composes sounds for performing art, radio and documentary. Producer and director for Radio France (French National Radio), she has also created the Hand Made Radio Art (Collective Labo-radiophonic live performance). In September 2013 she joined the composition class of electroacoustic music at the Experimental Music Conservatory of […]
I live in a place of unending education. Therefore there could be no particular description or name of our activities. Everything we Aurovilians do is for getting experience, and to grow towards the ideal. What is my ideal? In few words to become someone worth of subtle and radiant expressions of the divine light, someone […]
I work with hand building and small forms. I use variety of glazes to create colorful fairy tale like world. I am ready to share it with those who keep the inner child happily alive. I’m always looking for play in work. I define play as a sense of not really knowing what is going […]
managed by Jocelyn. Apart from being the house where I live, Janaka house is one of the most beautiful houses in Auroville and contains a collection of art from this studio here and other artists in Auroville. People who would like to visit the house and see the art are welcome at 3 pm in […]
Depth and lightness, density and humor reveal themselves in Emanuele’s work through the «brush engravings on stone» created in the privacy of his atelier – a meeting with the stone and its telling features; and the illustrations of «Papui and Something Else», created in lively India. contact:address: Sukhavati, Aurovillephone : (91) 413 2623407e-mail: lele [at] auroville.org.in […]
Ange Peter came to India with her parents when she was two years old. She grew up in Auroville and completed her studies at the Sri Aurobindo’s International Center of Education in Pondicherry. Her first teachers in pottery were Ray Meeker and Deborah Smith from the Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry. Since then she has extensively […]
Akash Kapur is a writer who grew up and lives in Auroville. He is the author of one book, India Becoming, and his work has appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic, Auroville Today, The Economist, Granta, The New Yorker, The New York Times and Outlook. contact and link: www.akashkapur.com work:
