A Site-specific Installation and a Collaborative Performance in the garden space of Birla Academy, 2005
An advertisement was distributed in
the city that a new breed of rice has arrived in the city to be displayed in Birla Academy. A dome-shaped nursery, which looked like a colonial garden nursery was constructed in the garden space of Birla Academy. Inside the nursery six smaller domes were constructed with acrylic sheet. Inside each lay a bed of rice coated with urban products like gilletine, tur, ketchup, chocolate, cheese, car paint etc.The back wall of the nursery was covered with an enlarged version of a book A Garden Alphabets, 1758.In the centre of the nursery stood a grinding machine used for mixing mortars for concrete construction. A collection of traditional colonial gardening tools and urban byproducts from factories were installed in one corner. Some four sets of vacuum cleaner were installed below the grinding machine. Plastic pipes connected to the vacuum cleaners run to the ceiling of the nursery and outside. 
The performance happened in series of actions like, reading of texts(the garden alphabets, a collection of names of farmers who committed suicide, a catalogue about the environmental facilities provided by the new multiplexes etc.),the grinding of the machine, preparing the mortar ,pouring it on a human body and occasional video
projections of the transforming city of Kolkata,new constructions, the vanishing farming landscape ,the nightlife of the migrants(the ritual singing of the Biharis) and the private lonely rooms in the multistoried buildings.
Finally the vacuum cleaners blowed up the plastic pipes above the ceiling of the nursery like phallic projects. The whole performance happened in collaboration with students from Kala Bhavana ,Santiniketan and people like Taufik,Manash,Saumik,Janardan and others who are practicing artists in Kolkata.
projections of the transforming city of Kolkata,new constructions, the vanishing farming landscape ,the nightlife of the migrants(the ritual singing of the Biharis) and the private lonely rooms in the multistoried buildings.
Finally the vacuum cleaners blowed up the plastic pipes above the ceiling of the nursery like phallic projects. The whole performance happened in collaboration with students from Kala Bhavana ,Santiniketan and people like Taufik,Manash,Saumik,Janardan and others who are practicing artists in Kolkata.