Artists Cinema : Curated by C S Venkiteswaran
Film : CIRCLE
(9 mts /Video performance with assemblage of three photographs/Radha Gomaty /2013)
Synopsis
Sakshi : The Eternal Witness.
In life ,a mode of equanimous acceptance attained to by a being, either in a single devastating stroke or a process of self-transformation through an experience akin to being cooked on slowly burning embers...
Sakshi : A space that affords a Bird's eye view of the entire drama of dualities that wildly dance upon the silent ,centred, still, self- illumined stage of the Breathing Being :
the Pleasant & the Unpleasant
The Beautiful & the Ugly
The Dark&the Bright
...as also the deadly torque of
Veneration & Abjection which Women more often than not are subject to, in the spectrum of social experience.
Simple, Plain , Bare ,'I' am the subject in the performance going through all the motions of veneration (the ritual baths & ablutions,various adornments,offering of lamps ,garlands,strewing of flowers etc)
On the other hand, the socio-cultural rituals of humiliation employed in public lynchings & shamings that are the precursors to pogroms (Censorship by tarring, showering with dirty engine oil, garlanding with discarded footwear, pelting with rotting things, and scare tactics with burning objects like tires.)
Yet this 'I' sustains and survives just as it was - unmoved, silent & self contained, sustaining on the Cycle of Breath as the CIRCLE loops, endlessly repeats itself ...
Synopsis
Sakshi : The Eternal Witness.
In life ,a mode of equanimous acceptance attained to by a being, either in a single devastating stroke or a process of self-transformation through an experience akin to being cooked on slowly burning embers...
Sakshi : A space that affords a Bird's eye view of the entire drama of dualities that wildly dance upon the silent ,centred, still, self- illumined stage of the Breathing Being :
the Pleasant & the Unpleasant
The Beautiful & the Ugly
The Dark&the Bright
...as also the deadly torque of
Veneration & Abjection which Women more often than not are subject to, in the spectrum of social experience.
Simple, Plain , Bare ,'I' am the subject in the performance going through all the motions of veneration (the ritual baths & ablutions,various adornments,offering of lamps ,garlands,strewing of flowers etc)
On the other hand, the socio-cultural rituals of humiliation employed in public lynchings & shamings that are the precursors to pogroms (Censorship by tarring, showering with dirty engine oil, garlanding with discarded footwear, pelting with rotting things, and scare tactics with burning objects like tires.)
Yet this 'I' sustains and survives just as it was - unmoved, silent & self contained, sustaining on the Cycle of Breath as the CIRCLE loops, endlessly repeats itself ...
