February, 2016

• 9 February

  4 OSTs that redefined the gaming experience

  

  If you are a gamer you probably have been exposed to some really crazy pieces of music which you probably missed amongst the action and the adrenaline rushes. On the other hand, the songs that we come across in games add to the feel of it and are actually tailored …
• 8 February

  Music and Community: Rediscovering our lost connection with each other

  

  For ages, mankind has yearned for togetherness and the feeling of communion, whether it be between two individuals on an intimate physical plain, or be it in the form of a gathering or a festival. This feeling of community is an aspect which has been so heavily respected and emphasized …
• 7 February

  Interview with the Artist: How Uncertainty and Art go together

  

  Art is something that stimulates an individual’s thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and ideas through the senses. Recently, I came across Angappan or as many call him AG, who made me realize how art existed but not in the way it should in the lives of people. People don’t appreciate art, they …
• 7 February

  Marina Abramovic: The Artist as a Medium

  

  Art is beautiful. Artists must be beautiful. What you’re reading isn’t a wisecrack by a well established smartass artist, but a slogan performance artist Marina Abramovic repeats all the while brushing her hair vehemently (rooting out almost a thousand hair follicles in the process) for a period of 60 minutes. …
• 6 February

  The Scream of Nature: The Monologue of a Painting

  

  Edward Munch was asked one day, “What made you try and paint ‘The scream’?” “A scarlet sunset, so intensely crimson, The sky itself was a frenzied dream.” The canvas waited, dried and cold, In pastels and in oils bedraped. Waited to answer why it really screamed, Why horror had its …
• 6 February

  Carolee Schneemann: Art and Taboo

  

  “Art should comfort the disturbed  and disturb the comfortable.” A lot of artists these days attempt to push the limits and contort the very definitions of art. Picture this, you are an art critc in the early 70’s. You have decided to attend a performance art piece by a woman …
• 5 February

  Dante’s Inferno: The Art of Walking Through Hell

  

  “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” Born into the living arms of his parents, unbaptized and out of pure lust. He loved the man and was locked and whipped for it with shouts of “your love is not love!” She’d find a new place to eat every day. This …
• 5 February

  The Observer and the Observed: How Do We Let Art Do What it Does Best?

  

  There are people who see the world as a canvas and then they paint the world with emotions, colours, moves and words. Every time you see a person doing that you call him an artist. Indeed he is an artist because he makes you see what you usually fail to …
• 4 February

  The Culture of Dissidence: Why Heavy Metal Chose Me

  

  When you put on your earphones, plug into a song and feel the world around you dissolve into nothingness, you need to understand that the notes, tunes, rhythms and vibrations that are entering your ears are more than just sounds that cause changes in the way the chemicals in your …
• 3 February

  The Way of The Void: The Art of being an Artist

  

  What does it mean to be an artist? Well, this is what Terence McKenna had to say about artists, “The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey …