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Stellatus Revisited
No full textInstalled in the gallery’s second floor projection window, the work could be viewed from the street after dusk. Fifteen years later, we have invited Raksha to revisit the piece and reflect on the memories the work conjures when looking back from 2019.
Raksha will provide an insight in to the ideas behind her film Stellatus (2004) and reflect upon what the piece means to her today. In her talk Raksha, will explore how landscape and memory can hold our senses of identity, belonging, and loss.
“The film Stellatus asks us to look beyond the land and our immediate locality and forces us think beyond where we live, exploring expansively into the ether and our relationship with the sky, air and universe. As we know the stars can be seen from places across the world and forms a universal vision that we all can experience no matter where we live. It is the sky that we often look towards when faced with loss and the contemplation of the future.”
– Raksha Patel
An open discussion will follow along with Jeanine Griffin and our Engagement Curator Eelyn Lee
Raksha Patel in conversation with Alice Correia, Decolonising Arts Institute
No full textAs part of Alice Correia’s Research Fellowship at the Decolonising Arts Institute, University of the Arts, London, in 2021, she spoke to painter Raksha Patel about her artistic practice and the ways in which her identity as a woman of South Asian heritage has informed her subject matter, and perceptions of her work. Keen to move away from issues of ‘race’, and in an attempt to ‘decolonise’ the narrative around her practice, Patel and Correia discuss the ways that the grunge and yBa aesthetic of the 1990s informed her work as a student. Patel also reflects on how, in the 2000s, meditation and a closer understanding of the organic connections between the body and the environment impacted her work.
Raksha Patel is a Senior Lecturer on the BA Fine Art: Painting course at Camberwell College of Art
Kala Raksha Trust, Kutch
No full text Kala Raksha, a ten year old NGO involved in marketing of Handicrafts, has been facing stagnating sales for the last five years. In the initial years the growth rate was good, it grew from rupees 27,000 sales in 1993 to a high of 49.5 lacs by March 2001. After that, though the sales did reach rupees 55 lac last year, they are not growing at the rates at which they had been earlier. The strengths of Kala Raksha lie in good embroidery and designs, wide variety of products and loyal set of customers and reputation in the market. The product portfolio of Kala Raksha has over 600 products with the prices ranging from rupees 13, 000 to rupees 50. Exhibitions are the major mode of sales for the NGO. The issue of leveraging the strengths of the organisation to increase its sales are raised. </jats:p
ABSTRACT Raksha: A Flexible Information Flow Architecture
No full textfor Software Security High-level semantic vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and crosssite scripting have surpassed buffer overflows as the most prevalent security exploits. The breadth and diversity of software vulnerabilities demand new security solutions that combine the speed and practicality of hardware approaches with the flexibility and robustness of software systems. This paper proposes Raksha, an architecture for software security based on dynamic information flow tracking (DIFT). Raksha provides three novel features that allow for a flexible hardware/software approach to security. First, it supports flexible and programmable security policies that enable software to direct hardware analysis towards a wide range of high-level and low-level attacks. Second, it supports multiple active security policies that can protect the system against concurrent attacks. Third, it supports low-overhead security handlers that allow software to correct, complement, or extend the hardware-based analysis without the overhead associated with operating system traps. We present an FPGA prototype for Raksha that provides a fullfeatured Linux workstation for security analysis. Using unmodified binaries for real-world applications, we demonstrate that Raksha can detect high-level attacks such as directory traversal, command injection, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting as well as low-level attacks such as buffer overflows. We also show that lowoverhead exception handling is critical for analyses such as memory corruption protection in order to address false positives that occur due to the diverse code patterns in frequently used software
Kala Raksha: From Cultural Identity to Intellectual Property
Full text linkThrough Kala Raksha we explore the dynamic relationship between fashion and tradition, and examine how mutual influence shaped and reflected changing identity among traditional embroidery artisans of Kutch, India. In India, ethnic affiliation has predominated over individuality. Traditional embroidery eloquently expressed this cultural identity. Styles evolved, but visual expression of group affiliation remained clear. Commercialization of embroidery indirectly influenced the development of fashion. Women had less time for hand work, but now had purchasing power. Fashion in turn impacted embroidery. Commercialization eroded the artisans\u27 aesthetics. Cultural identity was devalued and traditions were diluted. Kala Raksha used cultural heritage as a key resource. This valuation of traditional styles activated creativity and revived pride in cultural identity. For a decade, Kala Raksha successfully promoted contemporary crafts with cultural integrity. In the New Millennium, fashion and increased choice encouraged the concept of the individual. Kala Raksha began to think away from the industrial model, and to consider intellectual property. The Trust returned to maintaining and valuing cultural identity realizing that the artist is the steward of tradition. In 2005, the Trust founded Kala Raksha Vidhyalaya, the first design school for artisans, as a sustainable solution for the survival of traditions, and in 2010, it launched Artisan Design, a trademark to certify that a product is an artisan\u27s own creative innovation. The cultural evolution of a stronger individual identity created a space for the concept of intellectual property. Artisan Design accesses intellectual property for development and greater value
Stellatus Revisited
No full textIn 2004 Site Gallery invited artist Raksha Patel to exhibit her moving image work, Stellatus. Installed in the gallery’s second floor projection window the work could be viewed from the street after dusk. Fifteen years later we have invited Raksha to revisit the piece and reflect on the memories the work conjures when looking back on it from 2019.
Stellatus will once again shine out to Brown Street from the second floor projection window and will spark a series of events exploring landscape and memory.
“We often focus upon land – especially visuals of land – to reflect and evoke memories related to migration and places that we have previously lived in. The film Stellatus is a film of the starry night sky; it draws parallels between the heavens and Earth whilst being a film made about the ground that we live on.” Raksha Patel
Raksha Patel (b. Leicester) studied MFA painting, Slade School of Art, 1998. Her practice looks at ideas of place and identity in relation to migration, diaspora and industries of the East Midlands. Recent works depict juxtapositions between vibrant fabrics against bleak industrial landscapes and red brick terraced housing. She has worked with numerous galleries and museums on participatory projects since 1997 and currently works for Tate Modern and Tate Britain giving private and corporate tours and workshops to visiting school groups. She lives and works in London
Standing Ground: Re-thinking the painted British Landscape
Full text linkIn 2024 Raksha co-curated Standing Ground - Re-thinking the painted British Landscape at Thames-Side Studio Gallery, London, September 2024. The exhibition showed 12 painters who investigate what the British landscape is today by challenging traditional notions of the rural idyll and English landscape painting and its connection to identity and nationhood.
"Landscape painting is a particularly freighted artistic genre, deeply connected to ideas of national identity. This is especially the case in Britain, where landscape painting is often regarded as the most significant historical national artistic achievement, and the landscapes of Gainsborough, Constable and Turner are sometimes seen as synonymous with British art altogether. Landscape painting is thus fundamental to narratives of British cultural identity, with the latter also fluid like paint itself. Its slippery and not always controllable quality takes on its own forms on the canvas – echoing humans’ failed attempts to subdue the natural world". (Dr Kate Nichols, Standing Ground catalogue essay, 2024).
The exhibiting artists were Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Said Adrus, Bhajan Hunjan, Frank Bowling, Trevor Burgess, Jai Chuhan, Jasmir Creed, Kimathi Donkor, Grant Foster, Bruno Grad, Azraa Motala and Raksha Patel. The exhibition is curated by Raksha Patel and Trevor Burgess
Developing Inclusive Collections
No full textI spoke about the commissioned painting that I made for CSM Study and Museum Collection (UAL) with Curator Judy Willcocks. Our discussion was on developing inclusive museums for staff at the Museum of London.
Judy Willcocks (Curator at UAL Museum and Study Collection) and Raksha Patel spoke about the curatorial and commissioning process and Raksha's commissioned painting Tulsi the Goddess of Kings Cross
Insight on Raksha Karma with Sterilization
Full text linkAyurveda the science of healthy living encompasses of various branches of therapeutic aspect. Shalyatantra is one of them which involves surgical and parasurgical interventions. For the success of surgical line of treatment Acharya Sushruta has advised Raksha Karma which is equivalent term for Sterilization. Acharyas mentioned various Dhoopana with Rakshoghna Dravyas for the sterilization of OT rooms, surgical ward, Neonatal ward and Labour ward to protect from Atura macro and microorganisms and for instruments sterilization by Agni (Heat), Kahaya (Decoction) and Atapa (Sunlight) etc. Nowadays Sterilization procedure is done with the same basic principles of Ayurveda i.e. Heat, Chemicals or Radiation
sj-pdf-1-ijq-10.1177_16094069221081606 – Supplemental Material for Sequential Research to Evaluate the Impact of Patient and Public Involvement on Cancer Research Outcomes: Using Interviews, Stimulus Material and a Modified Delphi Technique
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ijq-10.1177_16094069221081606 for Sequential Research to Evaluate the Impact of Patient and Public Involvement on Cancer Research Outcomes: Using Interviews, Stimulus Material and a Modified Delphi Technique by Raksha Pandya-Wood in International Journal of Qualitative Methods</p
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