আসন্ন মরীচিকার মাঝে

আসন্ন মরীচিকার মাঝে​ Exhibition date: 21 Nov – 5 Dec, 2025 Artist: Tadashi Watanabe, JapanPerformance Empty No.28: 21st and 23 Nov, 2025, 6 pm Statement: January 4 th,1973 Tadashi Watanabe was born.May 1991 : Tadashi Watanabe quit the design course of Osaka Art College Technical school.April 1994 : Tadashi Watanabe entered the picture course of Nagano Art Technical school.October 1996 : Tadashi Watanabe produced “GENZON-HYOGEN” live performance in TOKYO and NAGANO.September 1997 : Tadashi Watanabe performed at “TRANA ART COMMUNICATION” in Slovakia and Hungary.June 2001 : Tadashi Watanabe performed at “ON THE EDGES” International Festival in Lietuva. May 2002 : Tadashi Watanabe exhibit “2002 Flag Art Festival” 2002 FIFA WORLD CUP KOREA/JAPAN in Korea.April 2003: Sharjah International Biennial 6 in U.A.E.August 2003: Tadashi Watanabe performed at GARAPAGPS ART SPACE in NY. May 2004: Exhibition at GARAPAGOS ART SPACE IN NY.September 2004: Exhibition at TRIBES Gallery in NY.April 2005: Exhibition at CAVE Gallery in NY.February2022: Held a special exhibition at the Okaya Museum of art in Nagano,japan.September2022. :My Exhibition at Ryugenji Temple in Nakano city,Nagano, japan.June 2023: Solo performance at Art share LA in USA.July 2023: Tadashi Watanabe organized the “beyyond the soul” performance art festival in japan.November 2023: My Exhibition at Azumino museum in Nagano, japan.July 2024: Tadashi Watanabe organized the “beyyond the soul” performance art festival in japan.July 2025: Tadashi Watanabe organized the “beyyond the soul” performance art festival in japan. ​ https://youtu.be/5q0vaRtgO70https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjUgt-UfiF8

RANDOM

Random The ‘Space’ show in 2012 was dedicated to 10 years journey of BRITTO and inauguration of its new and permanent premises at Green Road with work of all Britto members. The second groups effort of the members was to create a large collective project in on month, a black and white wall mural inside Britto titled as ‘Overlapping’ in 2013. The last group exhibition of the members was titled as ‘Cross Casting’ – a project focused on cross gender casting in 2014. ‘Space’ and ‘Cross Casting’ both were curated by our in-house curator/ artist Mahbubur Rahman. RANDOM is distinct to showcase the togetherness of this unit of artists from Britto once again vigorously but randomly.. The works are chosen without regard to any characteristics of the individual participants, so that each work has an equal chance of being exposed. The Character of the show is having a value that only can be depicted the prospect of the team-work over the years. 20 artists from different background have come up with 20 works to set up ‘Random’ – the fourth group exhibition by the members of Britto.

ZERO WASTE-FoodArt​

Zero Waste Regardless of where we live, how old we are, or what beliefs we hold, our race, social status and position each of us is affected by this extraordinary surreal situation amid COVID-19. Together we have been immobilised for days or months now. We are trying hard to fight the virus every moment without knowing what is next. The novel Corona virus has sped around the world is yet spreading aggressively in many locations and frequently depicted as a wave in the globe. Poorer or developing countries including Bangladesh is already going through an enormous crisis of job and food while most people are hand to mouth over here. In this highly dense country, in one hand, many do not even realize the high risk and danger of this deadly virus and social distancing seems impossible in their lives, although on the other hand, many are struggling to survive and fight putting themselves in self-isolation and keeping social distancing. The economy of the most powerful developed countries already have fallen down that will definitely badly affect us in the coming days. Everywhere, art and artists are experiencing increasing pressure, as public spaces are avoided these days and there is no commerce related to art and culture this time. It is indeed in times of Global crisis when the power and need for art and culture are most apparent. We believe challenging times can bring out the worst or the best in society. We need to follow the solidarity and commitment to the positive. Overlooking our previous practice and superficial ideas, in times of this frustrating pandemic, extremely needed transformative power of our art & culture will be our response. During this most challenging time of the history, Britto has initiated an inspiring project focusing on Food and Art. Ensuring the social distancing, a number of artists, writers, artisans, makers, communities and farmers are engaged with the project for months from March 2020 and eventually at least a year ahead and beyond. An ecosystem is organically developing and many artists’ are experiencing the biodiversity throughout this process of growing and making. Learning, investigating, researching and negotiating have become the part of the process as well. Chittagong based Santaran Art Organization and Thakurgaon based Gidree Bawlee and a group of individuals have already joined the project from each location. Two vital actions needed to be implemented focusing on ‘Zero Waste- FoodArt ’ time frames: a) Immediate action: 1-3 month b) Long term project: 12 months and beyond The first one includes artists who would like to make or supply food while the second one focuses on the long term involvement of the participants to germination, plantation and growing vegetables, fruits and main crops such as rice. Zero Waste – FoodArt has four major elements: 1) Growing/planting vegetable or crop as well as making /supplying food. 2) Sharing/distributing homegrown foodstuff or homemade/ readymade food with neighbors or any other people in need. 3) Using every possible part of the vegetable/ crop and all available empty spaces around. 4) Throughout the process of growing and harvesting the artists would create artworks implementing natural materials/waste from own agriculture via any possible form of art. How it is ‘Zero Waste’? The art materials that we use for artworks are not meant to be reused in most cases. But this time as food is our main material, the artists would recycle the produced food/crops/ packaging without wasting anything related to the project. Whatever land/space is available or lying next to us would also be used as part of growing foodstuff. This is how we introduce- ‘Zero Waste’. Throughout the process of farming, making, distributing or organizing food, the artists are welcomed to create site specific, land art, installation, performance, drawing, diary writing, book making, documentation via photography and video, online/offline interaction, implementation of educational & research based ideas on their own terms. A number of group video calls are made by the whole team of the project discussing, sharing and brainstorming the possibilities about how some of the artists would also like to use the available empty spaces across the country to grow crops/ vegetables for the people who are in need of food due to the pandemic. Learning from elderly members of the family, agriculture expert as well as the farmers from the villages giving a new dimension and expansion to the whole project. Artists are sharing their new experiences of successes and failures as well as discovering a new understanding of the earth, plant, nature, ecology and biodiversity amongst each other via the group video meetings time to time. Who are the beneficiaries? The mainstream deprived people, different ethnic communities from remote areas, slum dwellers, the homeless people, children from a brothel and the jobless people from suburbs who depend on the towns or cities to survive are the beneficiaries of the final foodstuffs. To extend and expand the project as part of the solidarity, we are inviting interested artists/ art organisations/ collectives from any location of the globe to join the project ‘Zero Waste-FoodArt’. The participating artists/ organisations/ collectives have to raise their expenses to execute their own project.   THE LIST OF THE PROJECTS & LOCATIONS   WITH THE ETHNIC COMMUNITIES & VILLAGERS   Project initiator: Molla Sagar Project Title: Aush- আউশ Location: Pirgaccha- Chunia, Modhupur Forest Molla Sagar lives and works in a Mandi (ethnic group) community of the Modhupur Forest. Aush is a genre of rice that used to be cultivated in past before the IRRI took place. Usually there are two types of main rice cultivated twice a year only. The artists convinced a Mandi family to use a piece of land to cultivate Aush using organic old method. No synthetic but the natural fertilizer is used in this land. As a documentary filmmaker, Molla Sagar will make a film on the whole process and will capture the still images as part of his own work. Project initiator: Gidree Bawlee Project name: Kitchen Garden Location: Molani Para, Thakurgaon