Tag: Audiovisual

Land is not a home!

People exploring objects in exhibition
Exhibition opening at Sawda Ghevra, 2016

Sawda Ghevra, Delhi 2016. Mixed media performance installation.

10 years after Where is Nangla Maachi? this exhibition and associated events worked with the displaced comminities of Nangla and other demolition sites across the city to commemorate the acheivements of 10 years of building a new neighbourhood by reflecting on the journey so far through sounds and other objects that have travelled with the people of Sawda, as well as the sounds and places left behind. Continue reading “Land is not a home!”

Where is Nangla Manchi?

Intallation, Khoj, New Delhi, 2006

A personal response to hearing the soundscape at nangla maanchi basti on the west bank of the jamuna both before and after the violent demolition of this community in mid 2006.

As recordings of the before and after soundscape weave through each other visitors are invited to step into the images of the site projected onto fabric drapes they can walk amongst. Continue reading “Where is Nangla Manchi?”

The Glass Bell

Interactive Water Installation premiered at next wave festival 2002 Shot on location in the north of Finland where the my grandmother grew up & based on some of the stories which resonate through the lives of three generations of women in my family, The Glass Bell is a fictional poetic construct, an underwater archeology, which explores the role of stories as placeholders for the unutterable, for what falls between languages and places when we leave. Continue reading “The Glass Bell”