Preeti Chandrakant

Preeti Chandrakant better known as Maharishikaa Preeti or simply Maiyaa, mystic artist and art film maker.
Revered as a seer, Maharishikaa Preeti is known to demystify spirituality in her unrelenting call to realise the Self. Over the last decade and a half, she has attracted thousands of seekers from around the world. Through her lucid answers to their questions, she progressively unveils an astounding body of knowledge about every conceivable aspect of life., she is the first artist worldwide to create and show, ArtBeings - humans who have been sculpted by her over many years, and programmed with Time Pieces the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, the Locarno International Film Festival, the Trento International Film Festival,
Life
Mumbai-born Preeti Chandrakant's father was a Time-Life photographer in the 1960s. Her mother, Kamala Chandrakant, was an editor and writer of India's mythological comics Amar Chitra Katha, which have sold over ninety million copies worldwide.
While developing her work as an artist in Zürich, on an extraordinary adventure of consciousness, a series of indescribable mystic experiences catapulted Preeti into a state that marked the beginning of an ongoing manifestation of a new and immense body of knowledge.
Art and Art Film
Early in her career as an artist, Chandrakant crossed paths with Swiss author Romano 'Roma' Fasciati who had grown up in the tiny alpine village of Stampa, home to the family of renowned sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Jointly they embarked on what was to be a fourteen-year-long precise investigation of human consciousness. Chandrakant calls the works of this period Outer Journeys, Inner Odysseys..
A Goat To The Gods (as Preeti von Roma, director) is a video collage of behind-the-scenes 'found objects' with Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog. The film depicts "an absurd journey into a jungle of veiled madness" revealing the 'doings' of Kinski and Herzog against the backdrop of real Africa. A Goat To The Gods premiered at the Palais Pallfy in Vienna. (as Kali, director and screenplay writer) is a black and white feature film, (with the mesmerizing cinematography of Werner Herzog trained cameramen Rainer Klausmann and Beat Presser and the magical music of Popul Vuh) describing "a journey from the real to the surreal", shot with Roma and the people of his village, Stampa. Chandrakant won an award from the Federal office of Culture of the Swiss Confederation as well as the extremely rare
Evolution and Spirituality
After Jesus goes to India, Maharishikaa Preeti and Romano 'Roma' Fasciati's collaboration focused on a body of thought about art, evolution and spirituality and the interrelationship between experience, perception and transformation.
Chandrakant also presented a path breaking piece titled ‘The Shift to the New Being’ at the International Conference on Thinking held in Phoenix, Arizona titled 'Creating the Future: Paradigm Shifts in all Disciplines'.
Later at the United Nations, she presented the concept of a Peace Awakening Force, a forum of the avant-garde of science, art, and spirituality, organized as a complement to the peace-keeping, peace-building, and peace-making efforts of the United Nations.
Her appearance at these two venues was backed by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, as well as the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and the City Council of Zürich. at the India Art Fair, when she issued a call to collectors and institutions, to go down in the history of art, as the first ever collector of a Living Work of Art. with curious and sometimes shocked visitors, conversing with them about the process of sculpting that they had undergone and the philosophy and technology underlying this new art form.
With this seminal work, Chandrakant raises vital questions about slavery and freedom. She wryly comments on the commodification of art and the art world’s focus on permanence, draws attention to the human being as a potential work of art, and introduces a new format for artists to explore.
“It’s about shifting the interest from object to human” she remarked.
The Time Piece called One Veiled Question has a burka clad Element approaching visitors saying, “Excuse me, may I ask you a question? Am I art?”
If, during the resulting conversation, the visitor utters either the word 'object' or the word 'religion' , he or she is interrupted by the Element, who lifts up the veil, removes the burka, and cries out “Oh no! Did you say the word object?” (or, “Oh no! Did you say the word religion?”) “This is the end! It's all Immaterial!”
The Element then pauses for a moment, before declaring, "You have just
been interactive in a Time Piece called One Veiled Question by Preeti Chandrakant."
Chandrakant says, "In fifty years, maybe sooner, most artists will have stopped creating cumbersome objects. Galleries, museums and private collections will be alive with art that breathes."
*Arts Council of the Bregaglia (Società Culturale di Bregaglia)
*City Council of Zürich (Stadtrat der Stadt Zürich)
*Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Switzerland (Eidgenössisches Departement für auswärtige Angelegenheiten)
*Swiss National Television (German (DRS), Italian (TSI)
*Audience Favorite Film (Trento International Film Festival) Italy

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