VIDEO ART AND INSTALLATIONS
shows
NEIGHBOURHOOD
POP-UP MUSEUM
Hum Sab Nizamuddin.
The pop-up museum, across sites
Concept: Surajit Sarkar
Research, Curation & Creative:
Vani Subramanian
Nizamuddin, New Delhi
2015
SYNOPSIS
An oral history project of the neighbourhoods of Nizamuddin in New Delhi. From an 800 year old settlement to colonies born with an independent new nation, its historical sites, private homes and spiritual sanctuaries are the sites of peoples' memories and narratives. As we roam the lanes, bylanes, parks, markets and roundabouts of Nizamuddin with them and hear their stories, we discover some resonance with our own.
Manifested as an open tented exhibition featuring video films, slide shows, textual panels, an interactive game and other personal objects. The exhibition was complemented by multiple public events including conversations, screenings, and performances centred around the art, history, culture and people of Nizamuddin.
SITES
Old Badminton Court, Nizamuddin East
MCD School, Nizamuddin Basti
COLLABORATORS
Lalit Kala Academy
and
Centre for Community Knowledge, Ambedkar University Delhi
Gender. Space. Intersections.
Concept, Research, Creative:
Vani Subramanian
Supported by Fulbright Fellowship
First edition: 2013
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION
Opacity.
A series of workshops on theoretical underpinnings and lived realities of gender, inequities of power and the politics of space.
SYNOPSIS
The gendered body is an opaque presence. Sometimes belonging, sometimes owning. Always aware, always strategizing. Often framing and, even more often, being framed by the spaces it inhabits, in permanence, or in passing. Spaces imagined by convention, inscribed with sexuality, activated by memory and located at the intersection of image and image-making.
The installation, created by an interplay of video, audio, text, objects, live projection, shadows and reflections, offers an immersive, visceral experience of inhabiting multiple spaces within the work, irrespective of whether it is in a studio gallery, the corridors of a building or even an open air public space. .
SITES
Milstein Hall, Cornell University, NY
Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Bengaluru
Goethe Institute, New Delhi
Studio X, Mumbai
Eklavya, Hoshangabad
Gandhi Bhavan, Bhopal
WORKSHOPS
Some creative outcomes from the workshops.
IIHS, Bengaluru
Goethe Institute, New Delhi
Studio X, Mumbai
Eklavya, Hoshangabad
Gandhi Bhavan, Bhopal
The installation, across sites
VIDEO ART IN PERFORMANCE.
Some creative outcomes from the workshops, and public interactions.
Now Is.
Choreography and Dance:
Aditi Mangaldas
Art: Siegward Sprotte
Video art: Vani Subramanian
and Surajit Sarkar
Production: Drishtikon Foundation
2010
