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Navjot Altaf Mohamedi

Navjot Altaf Mohamedi has been engaged with installations and site-specific works that negotiate various disciplinary boundaries. The essence of her imagery comes out of her theoretical and methodological innovation, combined with deeply engaged readings of historical and contemporary art, film, and cultural theory. Navjot works with people from different disciplines and simultaneously since 1997 has been working in collaboration with indigenous artists and community members on ongoing “Nalpar” hand-pump sites and “Pilla Gudi” (temples for children)—public art projects in Chhattisgarh, Central India. Her methodology ascertains the interactive aspects of collaboration: the work emerges out of an extended dialogical interaction, and alters the conventional relationship between the participants/viewer and the work of art. “The process has helped me address my need for ‘aesthetic paradigms which stress the importance of perpetual reinvention and engaging into grounds on which one is not familiar’ … Gradually moving towards transdisciplinarity … making me realize the significance of transdisciplinary work whose nature is not merely to cross disciplinary boundaries but to rearrange our mental landscape.” Navjot has participated in national and international artists’ workshops and residencies, and has presented papers at seminars in India, Japan, Bangkok, the UK, USA, Canada, and Germany. She is one of the founder members of the center “Dialogue—Interactive Artists Association” in Kondagaon, and has been organizing seminars and discussions.

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