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Pedagogy as art practice is a tool to explore art activity beyond the avant-garde art practise of intervention, disruption and to educate the public from outside. Pedagogy as art practise is a process of engaging with the public and public space from a reciprocal position of making and learning together, towards a collective dialogue of individual coexistence. Public engagement here evolves as a site-specific or site-based conversation and unfolds multiple ways of engaging with the user space relationship to explore art practise as a multilayered phenomenon of process and conversation. This website is a process of recollection and mapping of different tools and methods of engaging in site-specific and site-based art activity towards a pedagogic conversation between institutional space and private space. It is also an effort to accumulate different tools of art as engagement towards an individual and collective dialogue and exploration. This site is a pedagogical venture of multiple engagements with different sites of diverse social, cultural and geopolitical contexts, exploring critical multiplicity. It explores different methods of individual innovation and collective interaction as a critical dialogue of making and learning. So many of the processes shared are contributions of multiple co-workers, collaborators from varied backgrounds and disciplines. It also situates dialogues with students from Kala Bhavana (Institute of Fine Arts), Visva Bharati, Santiniketan in particular and many other institutes from all over India as different forms of working together in an institutional space from inside. So the images are excerpts of long- and short-term methods of research-based practice from an individual point of view of process that are fragments of memories from multiple perspectives of participation, collaborations and conversations. This is an archive of more than twenty-five years of social and community-based engagement towards the formulation of a transforming network of an invisible, unregistered ecology in transit.

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