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
3. Drawings in the work are from my daily journal, expressing scenes of migration, dehumanisation, objectification, dissociation and make-shiftness.