A yearlong observatory for an occupation of time
Young men walk holding hands in the Delhi metro and engage in physical expressions of banter. Yaarana. The term ‘queer’ denotes subversion, where something works against the grain of normative structures of thinking and acting. Having moved away from its pejorative connotations, the word today implies an emancipatory occupation of space, where the body can … Continue reading Beyond Binaries
“A woman takes her skin off every night at the threshold of her house after her husband falls asleep. Leaving the skin on the threshold, she walks out to meet her lover, spends the night with him, and comes back to her husband before dawn after putting the skin back on. The husband finds out … Continue reading Relocating Bodies
How does a space look in the absence of habitation? How does space react to erasure? Does it reflect our fear of absence? Does space lose reference? Site. A loudspeaker sits atop a wall on the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan premises. The speaker plays an audio track in a continuous loop, where complete silence … Continue reading in the absence of
The handwritten letter is a tangible product inextricably associated with a nostalgic value. It is associated with a former age when the black mirror did not permeate the texture of our everyday lives. The act of writing a letter involves multiple bodies- that of the writer, the postman, the addressee and any other potential reader … Continue reading In Transit
The title ‘Five Million Incidents’ evokes an impossibility in its rejection of conceivable time and quantity. At the same time, it points to the very real possibility of horizontal simultaneity where incidents overlap and even cause each other’s happening. This osmosis of space and time becomes a neural network of sorts, where each being feeds … Continue reading The Rhizome
