About the project

Open Doors

Open the door which separates the prison life from our life.

Create a connection between these worlds.

To give raise to a miror beyond our social and cultural differences.

To break the wall of boundaries, the wall of ideas and prejudices.

With this project, Priyadarshini John and Béatrice Didier will consider themselves first as "transmission instruments", "relay" between inside and outside.

For both of them, it will be the matter of being revealing and witnesses.

Witnesses and relays of presences hidden from the world.

And in another way, they will be presence of the "outside world" in the jail, via their artistic project.

It's the matter of breaking the wall between prisoners and them.

Open Doors- Open the doors between the prison life and our life. Enter in a world which is unfamiliar to us. Give the opportunity to these women to exist outside the prison life.

How to tackle the idea of the "encounter", to bring this out concrete walls and metald oors? How to make this "visible" from the "outside" world?

How to tackle the "encounter"? How to give the opportunity to these women to exist outside their walls?

"The body is the only space on which we can act"

E.Lamoureux

During her last visit in march, Béatrice has been marked how most of these women have reacted so spontaneously to the project Into Your arms.

The presence of a stranger in their bodies gave them back to her body a space of existence, an identity ( "The man exists only trough his relations with others" D.Lebreton, "Anthropologie du corps et modernité )

During this project in jail, the body will be at once exchanges subject and creation's tool.

Exchange between two different cultures.

Exchange between artists and "no artists". 

To create together. 

After one month of a workshop, Béatrice and Priya will realize an installation/exhibition with all traces ( fotos/texts/ sounds) about this encounter.  

In India and in Belgium.

About Chaitali ( a woman of the Birsa Munda Jail):
http://beadidier.blogspot.com/2010/03/into-your-arms-ranchi.html
About the first visit at Birsa Munda Jail:
http://beadidier.blogspot.com/2010/03/into-your-arms-prison-de-ranchi.html 
About the second visit:
http://beadidier.blogspot.com/2010/03/into-your-arms-prison-de-ranchi-ii.html