International Artists Workshop 2001 was held in September 2001 at the Lunuganga Estate of the eminent architect Geofry Bawa. A beautiful location with sprawling gardens situated near the lake ‘Lunuganga’ in Bentota, this country estate offered number of interesting sites for the artists to work on.
Fourteen artists from Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Pakistan, and Singapore participated in the Theertha International Artists Workshop 2001
Pradeep Chandrasiri (Sri Lanka), G. R. Constantine (Sri Lanka), Santiphap Inkong-ngam (Thailand), S. Jeyashankar (Sri Lanka), Tripura Kashyap (India), Bandu Manamperi (Sri Lanka), Anoli Perera (Sri Lanka), Jamal Shah (Pakistan), Chandraguptha Thenuwara ((Sri Lanka), Ravibandu Vidyapathi (Sri Lanka), Jagath Weerasinghe (Sri Lanka), Lee Wen (Singapore), Anura Krishantha (Sri Lanka), Pushpakumara Koralegedara (Sri Lanka), and two Sri Lankan ritual dance groups participated in the 2001 Workshop.
FROM THEERTHA REPORT
S. Jeyashankar’s work titled ‘Suicide by Consent’ gave a critical commentary on the contemporary consumer culture where Coke bottles and plastic waste becomes the marker of its overconsumption. He used throw-away plastic water bottles installed on top of an abandoned well and a large replica of a Coke bottle which he burned at the end of the performance relating to the work.
Theertha workshop was sponsored by Prince Klaus Foundation and Lunuganga Trust
