A collage of photo-copy prints of drawings is made into a speaker with a tiny magnet and some copper wires.
The aggregate-body of copier-papers vibrates, disturbing the air around them to produce an audio which speaks
"you are in the same atmosphere as me". The words reason for Equality or Same-ness. As the sound loops, it appears more and more ambiently distorted.
When ambient distortions consume the words, the paper-apparattus vibrates more and more stressfully, struggling harder and harder, to speak the same words. While the meaning of words obscure, the ambient distortion makes the materiality of the copier-paper become present in its struggle.
A substance lost to the spectre of imitative commonness (copy) becomes Present, when it does a thing it was not manufactured to do.
When ambient distortions consume the words, the paper-apparattus vibrates more and more stressfully, struggling harder and harder, to speak the same words. While the meaning of words obscure, the ambient distortion makes the materiality of the copier-paper become present in its struggle.
A substance lost to the spectre of imitative commonness (copy) becomes Present, when it does a thing it was not manufactured to do.
Drawings, Collage, Installation: Kashyap
Audio Technology: Banana Apparatus: Ishan and Saurabh
Installation developed at Serendipity Arts Residency 2022
Shown at Serendipity, Delhi and Goa, 2022
Audio Technology: Banana Apparatus: Ishan and Saurabh
Installation developed at Serendipity Arts Residency 2022
Shown at Serendipity, Delhi and Goa, 2022
1. Becoming: The word Bahujan forms an emancipatory identity for ‘backward’ caste people. It translates to ‘many people’ but means ‘becoming many’ or ‘becoming other’.
2. A paper speaker
3. Drawings in the work are from my daily journal, expressing scenes of migration, dehumanisation, objectification, dissociation and make-shiftness.
2. A paper speaker
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcf3ad709426e6a3e1bc66e1c3a534c790fc225c189a5e709e2d7deaee3bfdbb/20230218_121530-copy-2.jpg)
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3. Drawings in the work are from my daily journal, expressing scenes of migration, dehumanisation, objectification, dissociation and make-shiftness.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07605e6b6e1a2194433f3ac304d517c458e9d9895dd3c33f34cacbe0cc340d21/train.jpg)
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