The Rubin Museum
"Kala Bhavana"
"Kala Bhavana"
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by Rabindranath Tagore (see links)
Newly commissioned film shows scenes and events wherein Nature and Harmony with the environment are integral to the schools pedagogy and political ecology, which includes 'Tree Schooling' whereby lessons take place in nature under the shade of trees. "O Horizon" focuses on the school at Santiniketan founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, the cosmopolitan polymath who shaped Indian art, literature, music, and education. Filmed, recorded and researched over five years in West Bengal, India, the film stages moments from Tagore’s extensive environmental pedagogy as a series of portraits, moods, studies, and sketches that allude to what might be described as the outlines of a “Tagorean cosmopolitics.”
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"Send a message to the worlds birds."
'Garden'
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?
I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds.
Open your doors and look abroad.
From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years."
I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds.
Open your doors and look abroad.
From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years."
Gardens developed over decades in poor soil meant the earth had to be dug out and better soil from other regions brought in.
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The Otolith Group
Founded in 2002 and produced this film which is on view in conjunction with the exhibition at the Rubin. I shot glimpses while the film was playing, hence the angle and blur of movement.
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'Gitanjali 35'
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake."
Links
http://rubinmuseum.org/events/exhibitions/a-lost-future
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_Bhavanahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_Bhavana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore
'Gitanjali 35'
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake."
Links
http://rubinmuseum.org/events/exhibitions/a-lost-future
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_Bhavanahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_Bhavana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore
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