Jasmeen Patheja: Kolkata, India Residence Period: October/November 2010
url: http://blog.blanknoise.org/
Blank Noise is a volunteer led community arts collective that builds public discourse towards the issue of street sexual harassment; ‘eve teasing’.
In its current phase Blank Noise takes the form of a public conversation. We build testimonials of street sexual harassment and disperse them back in the public. We try and engage the 3 groups ; the spectator, the survivor and the potential perpetrator while stressing that the 3 roles are interchangeable i.e. the perpetrator is a victim in one kind of view etc. The Internet is a medium that allows us to tread on this territory.
We seek to establish street sexual harassment as an issue that concerns male attitudes as much as it is a woman’s issue. Blank Noise also seeks to define boundaries between wooing ,flirting, harassment, violation. There are Blank Noise blogs that invite spectators, survivors and men to share their understanding of street sexual harassment.
3331 Artist & Curator Residence Program 