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Building Sight: Curatorial Project
| What | Sarai Out |
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| When |
2007-06-29 12:00
to 2007-09-09 21:00 |
| Where | Watermans Arts Centre, London |
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by Raqs Media Collective
'What is Delhi?' I ask myself.
I reply, 'The world is a body, and Delhi, the soul'.
- Mirza Ghalib
Cities are building sites. Construction never ends; work is in progress. "Building Sight" - brick by retinal brick, pixel by pixel, frame by frame - is a consideration of what it means to start a conversation, standing where we are located, in Delhi, with the body of the world, and its soul. The city can strike you as a maelstrom. The city swells, becomes strange, crowded, dense. Evictions breed evictions. A city becomes something you hang on to as you lurch into daily uncertainties. Yet, time is sought for pauses, for breath, for play, for dreaming, for the carving out of spaces, handholds and corridors which make the city livable.
"Building Sight" is a sketch of how a way of thinking about a city can be constructed. It is also a provisional index of conversations that we have been having for some time with friends, colleagues and correspondents - architects & urbanists, filmmakers & cinematographers, researchers, practitioners, editors and designers - who have helped us to think about what it means to live in cities. Many of them are from Delhi, some from Mumbai and Bangalore. To us, their work anticipates, rather than represents, what the response of contemporary art practice to the South Asian city can be.
With Sanjay Kak, Ruchir Joshi, Satyajit Pande, Solomon Benjamin, Ravikant Sharma, Prabhat Kumar Jha, Nancy Adajania, CyberMohalla Ensemble, Sarai Media Lab and the Sarai.txt Broadsheet Collective
Variable size installation with 9 video projections, sound, photo prints and slide projections
I reply, 'The world is a body, and Delhi, the soul'.
- Mirza Ghalib
Cities are building sites. Construction never ends; work is in progress. "Building Sight" - brick by retinal brick, pixel by pixel, frame by frame - is a consideration of what it means to start a conversation, standing where we are located, in Delhi, with the body of the world, and its soul. The city can strike you as a maelstrom. The city swells, becomes strange, crowded, dense. Evictions breed evictions. A city becomes something you hang on to as you lurch into daily uncertainties. Yet, time is sought for pauses, for breath, for play, for dreaming, for the carving out of spaces, handholds and corridors which make the city livable.
"Building Sight" is a sketch of how a way of thinking about a city can be constructed. It is also a provisional index of conversations that we have been having for some time with friends, colleagues and correspondents - architects & urbanists, filmmakers & cinematographers, researchers, practitioners, editors and designers - who have helped us to think about what it means to live in cities. Many of them are from Delhi, some from Mumbai and Bangalore. To us, their work anticipates, rather than represents, what the response of contemporary art practice to the South Asian city can be.
With Sanjay Kak, Ruchir Joshi, Satyajit Pande, Solomon Benjamin, Ravikant Sharma, Prabhat Kumar Jha, Nancy Adajania, CyberMohalla Ensemble, Sarai Media Lab and the Sarai.txt Broadsheet Collective
Variable size installation with 9 video projections, sound, photo prints and slide projections