For some time, I was thinking to organize and participate in an Open Workshop. What is this? Open Workshop? an workshop opened to everybody? or an workshop opened to experiment with different artforms and media? Or, it’s a workshop, which will be held under the open blue sky with scotching heat generated by fat old sun. Let me explain.
My Idea of an Open Workshop
The Open Workshop could be a production, design and development and residency centre for creative artists all across media, painting, photography art, animation, film, graphic design and music. It is a haven where both new and acknowledged and unknown talents, artists and professionals can reside for a time to work on their personal projects, on their own and together. The Open Workshop will provide necessary environment, the facilities and some of the financial means necessary to develop and produce “creative shits” end of the day.
The Open Workshop can support and host the production of short films and other short-term-low-budget projects as well as the development phases on longer-term and more costly endeavours. After development, such film and show concepts can be presented to Indian and European production companies for further development and co-production. In the case of short films, this open workshop facilities can manage worldwide festival distribution.
The Open Workshop is a centre for those persons who loves to dream and try to shape their dreams into reality, but as such it could also be central to commercial project development. It will be the place where new cultural products can arise, where international cross-media research and development projects can be carried out in collaboration with others. This place could be such a place, where the most important of all cultural products, concepts and stories, will be born.
I would like to discuss these issues with anybody interested to venture into this. We want money and space to start, otherwise, this is such a dream, which cannot be turned into reality and I am sure, this is a great venture to do in terms of unite and collaborative practice of applied art in our country.
