Varying Orders, installation view, India Club, London, 2016 Salt March. Calico, wool, black cotton Wrapping a (Khadi) Dhoti. Calico, wool, black cotton Khadi Lamp Shade (from £335), painting of Gandhi (belonging to India Club). Calico, wool, black vinyl Salt Lamp (from £8.95). Calico, wool, black vinyl Varying Orders, Calico, wool, black cotton Tablecloths after the exhibition, from top left: Salt March, Salt Lamp (for negative ion production from £8.98), Wrapping a (khadi) Dhoti, Khadi Lamp Shade (from £335), Varying Orders VARYING ORDERS Varying Orders is a site-specific installation realised as part of the artist collective Specular Assembly’s annual group exhibition at the India Club in London. Five hand-embroidered tablecloths, exploring the use of salt and hand-woven Khadi fabric as part of Gandhi’s collective acts of civil disobedience, and as valuable ‘craft’ items in contemporary consumer culture were placed to the tables at the Club. In 1930 Mohandas Gandhi initiated the Salt March, an act of non-violent civil disobedience against the salt tax imposed by the British for Indian salt production. Thousands joined the March and participated in the illegal salt making. Ghandi, a self-proclaimed anarchist also encouraged self-sufficiency through the making of Khadi, a hand spun fabric in opposition to the industrial calico manufacturing done by the British. He rejected the Western idea of materialism, promoting instead a de-centralised decision-making and the importance of community. Salt has become a culinary novelty in the West, as well as a purifying new age object in the form of the salt lamp (from £8.98). Khadi fabric is used in designer pieces such as lamp shades (from £355). With the kind support of: Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
2016
Site-specific installation at the India Club, London
Five tablecloths (calico, black cotton, black vinyl)
Varying Orders