Title: “A StreetCar Named DESIRE”
Synopsis:
A desire for Speed. A desire for Cars. Flyovers. Expressways.
A desire for melodrama on the streets of a metropolis.
A waltz between architecture and motion-picture.
“DESIRE” represents an incessant fluid process of mutation, deformation and delirium, of dynamically changing form that is both surface and cavity, and thus expressing the limitless in relative terms.
As we continue to reduce the space of slippage between the plastic solidity of material and ephemeral liquidity of light, imagination and matter begin to speak the same language.

Medium: video

About the Artist (Year of birth: 1976)

Vishal K. Dar, an architect with an innate artistic niche, he uses digital animation software, prototyping technology and new media to produce archi-sculptures, art installation and architecture. His work fuses the fields of architecture and design, new-media and film/animation. This MFA graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles was mentored by architect Greg Lynn, his art explores ‘digital ornamentation’ as the core theme.

Vishal’s name is featured in CGI, a book on computer generated imagery as the art of the 21st century. He designed and curated Apeejay Media Gallery’s Interactive Art Show ‘DOTmatrix’. In 2005, he initiated a workshop program at the National School of Drama, which deals with New Media in performance art and theatre. He has visualized art-shows at NGMA (Binod Bihari Mukerjee retrospective), Rabindre Bhavan (Satish Gujral), Gallery Espace (Amitava Das, Somnath Hore, Nagji Patel), and ‘VISTAAR’ at THE STAINLESS. He also designed Delhi’s largest ‘state-of-the-art’ gallery-THE STAINLESS.

He received ‘Promising Artist Award 2006 - Special Commendations’ by India Habitat Centre and ‘New performance art Grant Award’ by India Foundation for the Arts in 2006.

Besides having taught at UCLA and lectured at IIT, Vishal has also presented his work at various international venues like Berlinale, Viper Basel, Architecture Biennale, Siggraph to name a few. Presently, he resides and works out of his main studio in New Delhi, India.