Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology

This project led by artist Michelle Cherian focused on ways in which storytelling can be used as means of generating new artistic work. It explored how characters, spaces, and objects do or can contain multiple layers of both factual and fictional histories. Building a story around an idea adds depth and fantasy to the object, location or experience.

In this project, the students investigated various narrative forms and critiqued how artists and designers make use of story in their work. At the beginning of each project, narratives were written which were then used to extract conceptual ideas and molded into proposals for new works.

After establishing a concept, the students visualized these in the form of drawings, photographs, mood boards, maps, and scripts depending on the project. Once a visual language was developed, they began prototyping. Continual iteration between prototyping and writing took place throughout the process.

The final forms these works took fell into the category of sculpture installation, video art or performance art. The students who participated in the project exhibited their work to the public in a group show at November 2008 at 1 Shanthi Road Gallery in Bangalore.