Threading the Horizon: Propositions on Worldmaking through Socially Engaged Art Practice foregrounds the quotidian experience of violence experienced by women and gendered others explicated through acts of invisibility, exclusion, inequality and discrimination. In this entanglement of fourteen community-based projects across India, acts of resilience emerge through artistic strategies of placemaking, building voice, bearing witness, negotiating visibility, foregrounding leisure, healing and catharsis. These strategies have pried open the everydayness of gender-based violence to make way for an alternate framing of this experience through an artist's lens in the public realm. A perennial condition of urbanism in India is precarity that is often unevenly borne by women, queer and trans people, and those at the margins. What does urbanisation do to the experience of space and gendered violence? The practices propose a worldmaking within itself, where encounters, engagements, acts and actions generate new cosmologies. A hope for an equitable future emerges in restitution, quietude and vigour of collective action.

Yesterday.Today.Everyday.

Poornima Sukumar

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Yesterday. Today. Everyday. collaborates and co-creates along with the people from the Transgender community to excavate the wisdom they have inculcated over the years. By diving deep into their culture and traditional practices, Poornima Sukumar in collaboration with Aravani Art Project, examines their spaces of innovation, the places of their history and creates new spaces by transforming this knowledge into art.

Fursat ki Fizayen

Divya Chopra & Rwitee Mandal

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The Khoj facade mural Yesterday. Today. Everyday. by artist Poornima Sukumar in collaboration with the Aravani Art Project for Threading the Horizon, Khoj Studios, 2022.

Otherworlds

Sumedha Garg & Nitin Bathla

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Otherworlds explores the complex & exploitative labour and class relationships in Kapashera - a tenement town that lies at the cusp of Delhi and Gurugram. It questions the meaning of home for people in a place that is in a perpetual state of flux and how the temporariness of livelihoods and belonging affects the lives of women in this space.

Cotton Stainers

Shweta Bhattad

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Cotton Stainers has created a space that is run by the women in Paradsinga, so that it becomes a platform of expression for their stories and concerns through sustainable clothing. Right from the sowing of cotton to spinning it into yarn, hand-weaving it into fabric and stitching it into garments, is all done by the women in this space

Towards Feminist Futures

Jasmeen Patheja

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Towards Feminist Futures works with the vision to foster feminist solidarities to end gender-based violence and victim blame. The garment is a witness and memory of gender based injustice. It is present to say I Never Ask For It. #INeverAskForIt initiated by Blank Noise is a long-term mission to build ten thousand garment testimonials of sexual violence to end victim blame.

5 Bigha Zameen

Swati Janu

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'5 Bigha Zameen' aims to rethink our collective imaginations of the city and question whose rights are protected in our cities, and whose eroded. This project was carried out in collaboration with Social Design Collaborative.

A Fever Dream of a Feminist Internet

Padmini Ray Murray

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A Fever Dream of a Feminist Internet is a dream of an internet that privileges individual and community ownership and control, reconfigured through ethics of care. Padmini Ray Murray's project with Khoj is looking at how we are strangled by the tentacles of centralised internet infrastructures, both corporate and governmental, almost carceral in their increasingly suffocating demands on our data and diktats designed to manipulate our behaviour in online spaces.