Jasmeen believes that people's interaction and participation completes her work. Her work is interventionist and uses a range of media; performance, photography, video and the blog.
She has been committed to creating interactions in public spaces through a public and participatory arts project Blank Noise. Blank Noise project which started out as a student project is now a worldwide community of people interested in looking/confronting and exploring street sexual harassment/ 'eve teasing'.
http://blog.blanknoise.org is a community that probes and addresses street sexual harassment via both online events and street interventions across cities in India and now Pakistan. Jasmeen and Blank Noise have triggered debates about the intangibilty of street sexual harassment/violence, notion of 'modesty' and have challenged societal attitudes towards the issue referred to in popular parlance flippantly as "eve teasing
She graduated in visual arts from Srishti School of Art Design and Technology in 2003 and has been a fellow/affiliate at Sarai and Ashoka Innovators for the public. She has been an artist in residence at Khoj, India and is currently a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stutgart, Germany.
Jasmeen was born in Kolkata and now lives in Bangalore but travels regularly.
Contact Jasmeen at blanknoise@gmail.com
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