‘St+art’ - Changing the visual landscape of Delhi

‘St+art’ is a pioneering festival supporting a cause as novel and unlikely as that of street art. It offers artists from India and all over the world an independent platform that allows them to collaborate with each other and create some impeccable pieces of artwork. With the central focus being that of ‘Art for everyone’ and making art more accessible to far greater and newer audiences, the festival in effect aims to bring change into society. Through fantastic art interventions in public spaces using murals, workshops, seminars, exhibitions, and installations, this two month urban arts festival intends toalter, dynamically, the visual prospects of the city.

St+art Festival recently hosted one incredibly successful and celebrated programme, the WIP street art show, at the world’s largest dry port in Asia, ICD (Inland Container Depot), at Tughlakabad, Okhla. Around 25 national and international artists came together over the month of February to radically transform the ICD into a gigantic, walk-through installation created out of 100 shipping containers. The most distinctive prospect of this installation was the location itself – an incessantly transforming space – just about perfect and fundamental for street art.

With a programme like WIP Show, St+art intends to bring art outside of closed exhibitions to the common man,and offer the society more unique experiences.

At the end of the show, the shipping containers were left as it is, painted and imaginative, to fulfil their original purpose – travelling around India!