Curator and writer, Mayank Mansingh Kaul writes about our responsibilities towards history as a way to understand our future.
Perhaps even today – in this part of the world – creative making comes from a long tradition where such perceived divisions between ‘art’, ‘craft’ and ‘design’ do not exist on ground or philosophy, or that multitudes of technologies work in relation to each other and not always against.
Mayank Mansingh Kaul
In this reflective piece for Border and Fall, Mayank decodes Asia’s tendency to conflate art, craft and design. Craft traditions prevail in souvenir streets but their grand origins now mere references in contemporary art and design. He poignantly asks if the residual references of our decorative past may have indeed been India’s shining moment.