Summary of points raised during the discussions on the 11th April, 2009

1. The themes of the Public Art could be positive and should evoke a sense of joy, beauty, reflection and participation in the city for all citizens and visitors to the Games.
2. Recontextulising the monuments of Delhi.
3. Lanscape urbanism as a part of the Public Art projects – integration of landscape features and art projects.
4. Determining the locations where Public Art could be coming up.  Study and documentation  of these locations are necessary to provide the context to artists.
5. Exhibitions of sports photography in public locations (Both digital touch screens and regular exhibitions) in collaboration with sports news magazines or other agencies.
6. Collaboration between authorities and companies to be explored.
7. R.K. Lakshmans “Common Man” to be featured as sculpture in number of locations in the City in different expressions as a celeberation of the ordinary citizen.
8. Sports related cartoons in various public places like bus stops, ticket booths, metro stations etc. (collaboration with news media).
9. Commonwealth Games special signage system.
10. Graffith as Public Art in controlled placed.
11. Performance art, diolegical art, poetry in buses, metros and other moving venues.
12. Play grounds and open spaces for live debates.  Open up all parts of Delhi for this.
13. Meta-narratives on colonial rule and refugee resettlement in Delhi’s history could be represented.            
14. Compound wall art – Orissa Bhavan example.
15. Improvement of footpaths, leveled and cleaned with proper urban furniture.
16. New lighting of public spaces and the City.
17. Public Art must address the whole range of citizens – communicable art.
18. Lalit Kala Academy is willing to do parallel programmes and collaborations.
19. The ‘Notion of Play’ (Leela) as a concept to be explored.
20. Exhibition of traditional Indian Games.  Traditional acrobats could perform in public places across the City during the Games.
21. DUAC should play only scrutiny role.  Not to make proposals.
22. Public Art as permanent value adding art.  Example of Trevi Fountain in Rome and Park Guell in Barcelona.
23. Impermanent, contemporary theme-based Public Art is also important for the City.
24. Show Public Art in advertisements.
25. Post event issues need to be focused.
26. Delhi has the option to enable a dialogue with the citizens.  No need to copy from anywhere else.
27. Suspend advertising in media and insert public artworks/dialogues in that time (selectively).
28. Give expression to diverse migrant groups with different languages.  Celeberate India’s cultural diversity – Show case India’s and other Commonwealth countries martial arts during the Games in a festival of performing arts.
29. Surviellance camera spaces to be taken up for Public Art selectively.
30. ‘Art should not preach’.
31. Use television as a collaborative media as it is the ‘new public domain’.
32. Conversations that are site specific as Public Art.
33. Show case the event of partition and memorialize it.
34. It should be a democratic event.  Celeberate India’s democratic polity.
35. Art work could also violate the ‘sense of the local’.
36. There should be place for things of beauty and not only reflect conflict.
37. Artists from Delhi, India and Commonwealth Countries should be invited.  (Aneesh Kapur from the UK?).
38. Redeem abandoned, derelict spaces by Public Art.  The Power Houses near the River could be turned into Art spaces (e.g. the Tate Gallery London).
39. Cultural audit of spaces in the City for Public Art.
40. The Delhi Govt. and PWD would be happy to collaborate on Public Art.  Three flyovers are ready for Public Art.
41. Create an Art District in Mandi House area, using the under utilized spaces around Mandi House.  Create such venues in East, West, South and North Delhi areas.