“Sublime Scrolls” at Brooklyn Museum First Saturday. Come to get a text message immortalized by Swati Khurana. March 1, 2014. Target First Saturdays at Brooklyn Museum SUBLIME performances are from 8 – 10 PM in the Beaux-Arts Court. The museum is free & open to 5–11 PM. Performances by Monica Jahan Bose, Ruby Chishti, Anjali Deshmukh, Swati Khurana, Sunita S. Mukhi and Roshani Thakore.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays.php
“Text & the City”–an assortment of NYC-themed transcribed, scrolled text messages collected between September 2011-August 2013.
Interview with Urban Confustions editor Shilpa Kameswaran on New York City, the themes of the South Asian bride and the South Asian family, SAWCC, and the role collaboration.
http://urbanconfustionsjournal.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/khurana-2013.pdfWHAT IS THE ROLE OF COLLABORATION IN YOUR WORK? HOW HAS WORKING WITH OTHER ARTISTS IMPACTED YOUR PRACTICE?
Much of my original artistic exposure was watching my mother, aunts, and grandmothers sew, knit, crochet and embroider. About five years ago, I became especially interested in the trope of embroidery because it offered so many formal possibilities to explore what
I was doing with the drawings and collages on paper. … read more of the interview…
“Texting Scrolls” from Bronx Museum’s Coquito Masters Holiday Party. December 2012
photos by Amelia Holowaty Krales
Swati presents ‘Texting Scrolls, Scrolling Texts’
at the Bronx Museum of Arts annual holiday party and Coquito* Masters Finals
Come one come all to a tasty and festive event!This Friday, December 14, 2012
1040 Grand Concourse at 156th Street
Event from 6-8 PM. “Texting Scrolls” from 7-8 PM.
FREE and Open to the Public
At the event, BRIO 2012 Awardee Swati Khurana presents “Scrolling Texts,” a participatory project in which attendees can have their saved text messages transcribed onto scrolls, tied with thread. Her project will be presented as part of Bronx Council of the Arts’ Artists for Community Enrichment (ACE) Program.
*Coquito is a delicious, festive “Puerto Rican coconut milk - rum Christmas drink" - source: Food Network
“Scrolling Texts” at Creative Commons: SAWCC Transmedia Literary Festival. Asian American Writers’ Workshop. November 30, 2012.
Featuring text Messages from SAWCC Readers and Guests.
photos by Amelia Holowaty Krales
“Scrolling Texts” at Creative Commons: SAWCC Transmedia Literary Festival. Asian American Writers’ Workshop. November 30, 2012. Photos by Amelia Holowaty Krales
A scrolled love letter. To you. Transcribed by Swati Khurana. Contents: A text message of your choice from your phone.
The project took place as part of the ArtinOddPlaces Festival on October 2012. Specifically at the High Line and Union Square, 14th street, NYC
Photos by Amelia Krales, Firelei Baez, and Anjali Bhargava
Transcribed Text Messages from “Scrolling Texts” project 2011-2012
Love Letters & Other Necessary Fictions
2008
Transcribed text messages, emails, and other ephemeral notes received over 5 years of dating. The notes are then scrolled and tied with read thread.
Swati Khurana
As an Indian immigrant woman, my work explores gender, ethnicity and the seductive promises of rituals.
