Co-ordinates 28.8N 77.15E :: 2001-2002
Rescension 02: Roomade Office for Contemporary Art, Brussels, 2003
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Installation using 4 projections, soundscape, slide projection and print elements [including broadsheet, floor mat and 18 kinds of stickers] |
| In listing a set of latitude and longitude measurements, bracketed by two calendar years, this installation names a city called Delhi and a time that feels like the first two years of the twenty-first century. In doing so, the syntax of space-time co-ordinates also connects the city as a location to the abstractions of other spaces and times. These co-ordinates become a frame within which the work witnesses the experience of living in Delhi in terms of the constant conflict over control of space and over the different meanings that accrue to space. The installation presents each unit of space - public or residential - as being open to a variety of conflicting claims made by inhabitants, transients, users, owners, and planners. It witnesses the city as the battleground of a daily civil war between the masterplan and the moment. |
| Shown at: Documenta11, Kassel, Germany (June-September 2002) CityOne conference, Sarai/CSDS Delhi (January 2003) The Roomade Office for Contemporary Art, Brussels (March-June 2003) Image Asia, Copenhagen (August-September 2003) Adaptations, curated by Craig Buckley, at Apex Art gallery in New York 2004 and Fredrecianum, Kassel, 2004 Digital Discourse, Malta (23 November 2005 - 8 January 2006) |
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