INDIAN ARTIST TO OCCUPY MANCHESTER MUSEUM AS HERMIT
Artist Ansuman Biswas is well prepared for isolation in a Gothic tower, notes the BBC. The Calcutta-born artist has been picked to spend forty days and forty nights in a tiny room at the top of Manchester Museum, overlooking the city. Surrounding him will be 4.5 million artifacts, treasures the museum has collected over time. The forty-three-year-old will contemplate things “lost” and the impact of extinction.
Currently living in London, Biswas will uproot his life to exist in the ivory tower from June 27 until August 5. His only—if potent—form of communication with the outside world will be through his blog, as he details what life is like in seclusion.
“I will be in isolation, but I see myself performing a social function that is a historically important part of society,” says Biswas, who has previously spent ten days and nights without food in a cardboard box for an exhibition in London. He has also been blindfolded and left in a place unknown to him for two days.
