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George Chakravarthi is a multi-disciplinary artist working with photography, video, painting and performance. His work addresses the politics of identity including race, sexuality and gender, and also religious iconography among other subjects. He was born in India and moved to London, England in 1980.〔 He has performed and exhibited all over the UK and internationally at venues including Site Gallery, Sheffield, England; Tate Modern, London, England; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany; Tilburg Dance Academy, Tilburg, Netherlands; Queens Gallery, British Council, New Delhi, India;〔 La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain;〔 Brut Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria〔 and Abrons Arts Center, New York City, USA.〔 Chakravarthi has been commissioned by the BBC, Artangel, InIVA, the Arts Council of England, the British Council, the SPILL Festival of Performance, the Live Art Development Agency, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the Royal Shakespeare Company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/george-chakravarthi )〕 Chakravarthi studied at the University of Brighton, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal College of Art.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.iniva.org/library/archive/people/c/chakravarthi_george )〕 == Early life == Chakravarthi was born in New Delhi, India on 26 November 1969 to parents with origins in Tamil Nadu, India and British Burma. His parents considered the education of their children a priority, so the family lived very modestly in order for him and his siblings to be privately educated while in India. Chakravarthi attended St. Columba's School, Delhi,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://stcolumbas.net/home.jsp )〕 an English-medium school run by a Roman Catholic brotherhood (Congregation of Christian Brothers). Although nominally brought up as a Catholic, Chakravarthi's family encouraged him to absorb and be influenced by Hinduism and Buddhism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.georgechakravarthi.com/bio/ )〕 In 1980, Chakravarthi moved with his family to the UK. This was around the time of the Brixton and other riots,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/25/newsid_2546000/2546233.stm )〕 and the peaks for organised racism and electoral success of the far right (National Front General election results in May 1979). Mary Brennan, reviewing the National Review of Live Art in 2001, described the effect on Chakravarthi of his move to the UK as follows: He continued his education at St. Patrick's Primary School and St. Paul's Secondary School in south London, both Roman Catholic, multi-cultural schools. He began documenting his reactions to his new environment and his changing identity through writing and drawing, and then making photographic self-portraits (initially using photo booths〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/publishing/unseen/ )〕 until he was given a camera by the sculptor and photographer Hamish Horsley). Chakravarthi left home at the age of 16 and eventually settled in a modest flat in Greenwich, London. He had a variety of jobs including stacking shelves in supermarkets, as a go-go dancer in various nightclubs and as a photographic and artist's model. He attended a short course in photography at the Thames Independent Photography Project (TIPP) where his interest in photography and particularly making self-portraits was encouraged.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Chakravarthi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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