Streams, Torrents, and Waves
South Asian Visual Arts Centre, 2013
Monitor 9, SAVAC's eighth annual screening of contemporary South Asian film and video offers a curated glimpse into the vast amount of work being created by South Asian artists internationally.
Streams, Torrents, and Waves brings together eleven video art works that speak to bodies in flow. Drawing on Arjun Appadurai's notion of global flows, these videos examine bodies negotiating the various mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes, ethnoscapes, and ideoscapes shaping each artist's specific context. Narrative styles include experimental documentary, story-telling through performance, use of digital technologies to assert identities, and commentary on the shifting visibility of subjects. An engagement with varied migrations serves as a focal point for these currents.
ITEM 2013.106 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
passivity from passivus – Jude Anogwih
Buy This (v3) – Kooj (Kuljit) Chuhan
Treasure Hill Camouflage – So-Jin Chun
Desire – Ashim Halder Sagor
A Ripe Volcano – Taiki Sakpisit
Ink – Smriti Mehra
Ink – Matt Lee
look_im_azn – Nguyen Tan Hoang
Coming Out – Elisha Lim
City Beyond – Shreyasi Kar
Reality Dysfunctioned – Ahmed Faizan Naveed
Last Syllable – Pavitra Wickramasinghe