From the sarai newsletter: Raqs Media Collective (based at the Sarai Media Lab) opened an exhibition curated by them called “Building Sight” at the Watermans Arts Centre, London on the 29th of June. The exhibition features variable size installations with 9 video projections, slide projections, sound and photo prints. ‘Building Sight’ will remain on show till the 10th of September, 2007.

The artists and practitioners features in this exhibition are Sanjay Kak, Ruchir Joshi, Satyajit Pande, Solomon Benjamin, Ravikant Sharma, Prabhat Kumar Jha, Nancy Adajania, CyberMohalla Ensemble, Sarai Media Lab and the Sarai.txt Broadsheet Collective.

From the curatorial statement:

" 'Building Sight' is a sketch of how a way of thinking about a city can be constructed. It is also a provisional index of conversations that we have been having for some time with friends, colleagues and correspondents - architects & urbanists, filmmakers & cinematographers, researchers, practitioners, editors and designers - who have helped us to think about what it means to live in cities. Many of them are from Delhi, some from Mumbai and Bangalore. To us, their work anticipates, rather than represents, what the response of contemporary art practice to the South Asian city can be.”

For more information about this event you can visit the following link :

_http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/building_sight_curatorial_project/_

For an interesting review of ‘Building Sight’ that also takes in other exhibitions on urban themes going on in London currently, see –

_http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3675/_