EXHIBITION "Experience House : Creating Immersive Spaces in Residence" a show of immersive installations and performance art at KHOJ Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension > 17th to 20th November 2016
Time : 11:00 am - 10:00 pm Add to Calendar 17/11/2016 11:00 20/11/2016 22:00 Asia/Kolkata EXHIBITION "Experience House : Creating Immersive Spaces in Residence" a show of immersive installations and performance Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/11/exhibition-experience-house-creating.html KHOJ Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi - 110017 DD/MM/YYYY
Entry : Free
Venue : KHOJ Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi - 110017
Venue Info : khojworkshop.org | Nearest Metro Station - 'Malviya Nagar (Yellow Line) Exit Gate - 3'
Area : Saket
Event Description : EXHIBITION : Khoj International Artists Association presents "Experience House : Creating Immersive Spaces in Residence" a show of immersive installations and performance art by Asim Waqif (New Delhi), Aparna Rao and Soren Pors (Pors and Rao) from Bangalore and Daniele Bartolini (DLT) from Toronto/Italy.
Says Mario D’Souza, curator, Khoj Studios: “We often think of physical space as a three dimensional entity that exists between objects. Although this entity may contain “nothing” but air, we conceive of it as physically ascertainable, malleable, and constructible. We experience sensations in space and define our perception of the world by our relationship to that space. This notion of “nothingness” attributed to space poses some exciting questions - Is space actually an entity, a relationship between our senses and physical objects, or an abstract concept? Can we define, create, and manipulate space to create aesthetic experiences? The sense of immersion has been approached and explored in more ways than one, but there is no set or universally agreed upon definition for this term because all approaches converge on the word immersion from different knowledge sectors. The term is widely used for describing immersive virtual reality, installation art and video games, but no one meaning dominates. Its meaning remains vague, but common to each meaning is the connotation of being absorbed, engaged and embraced.”
Immersion transcends the inability of a cultural medium to provide a near-real experience to the viewer. It is a means of making the viewer, a witness and participant in the event, the show, the arrangement, in the most involved manner, blurring all traditional boundaries between the actor and the spectator, the watcher and the watched. Our own path to this experiment with experience, is long drawn and complex - For Khoj what began with explorations of Live Art, Sonic Art, Fashion, Theatre and more recently a sustained interest in Gaming forms our leeway into Immersion. What would it mean to occupy our own physical structure? Can we imagine it in a parallel Universe living an alternate life? The invitation thereby was to use Khoj and the immediate space it occupies and to create Immersive Environments for the audiences to dwell in and experience; participate and contribute.
The three projects experiment with diverse mediums and modes of Immersion.
Delhi-based Asim Waqif studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture and his recent projects have attempted a crossover between architecture, art and design, with a strong contextual reference to contemporary urban-design and the politics of occupying/intervening/using public spaces. Some of his projects have developed within abandoned and derelict buildings in the city that act like hidden activity-spaces for marginalized people. At Khoj, his large scale interactive installation will drastically alter the way people use the space coaxing viewers to climb, bend and crawl to negotiate spaces. Asim has been actively researching waste and consumption cycle in our society constantly over the years both in theory and practice. The current generation has produced more trash in the last four decades than all the previous generations put together. Looking through trash is a very interesting exercise, almost akin to archaeology, in the sense that one can begin to speculate on the lifestyle of a society or an individual by looking at the waste they leave behind. There are many recycling markets around Delhi, however the one in Kalindi Kunj specialises in waste generated by the demolition of buildings, specially discarded doors and windows, furniture and woodwork. As the city is going through incessant transformation, more and more old buildings have been demolished to make way for newer construction. A lot of this material is in good shape and it is often refurbished for use in the informal construction industry. In fact some of the really old doors and windows have top quality timber which is difficult to find today as the timber industry now fells younger trees and the elaborate seasoning processes have been replaced with chemical treatment. Asim's installation plays out as a collage, but in three dimensions guided through incidental innovation and adaptation rather than micro-managed conformism. The timber installation is embedded with an interactive acoustic system that is designed to create a soundscape triggered by the vibrations from the viewer’s movement through the space. Constricted areas will force the viewer to handle the materials to be able to squeeze through. Asim thinks we have a better recycling ethos than may post-industrial countries where the waste-management system is geared more towards hiding the waste and making it disappear, euphemistically known as “safely disposed”. However we seem to be racing towards ever increasing consumption and it is going to be critical how we deal with wastage in the long run. After the exhibition, all the material will be resold into the recycling market.
PORS AND RAO are a Bangalore based artist-duo who create sculptural artwork with electro-mechanical systems, interactive installations often involving performative movement, ‘life-like’ behaviour and response patterns that are often imbued with humor. For ther show at Khoj, they present Imperial Monochromes, a kinetic installation that imbibes their preoccupation with technology, humour and human condition. The monochromes hang in an arrangement similar to the manner in which religious altar paintings and portraits of powerful members of society were displayed in symmetrical groups during the Medieval and Renaissance period. The first view of the artwork is a glimpse of the monochromes, just as one enters the space: each tilting/ turning slowly or resting in different directions, in an erratic/ chaotic/ careless manner. As the viewer steps into the room, the panels — as if suddenly aware of this fact — hurriedly making their way back to their assigned vertical position in the original symmetrical composition and remain motionless as long as they sense a viewer in front of them. If the viewer does not move they slowly and hesitantly resume the slacking, more autonomous behaviour again, almost as if they were becoming immune to the viewer’s presence. However if any significant movements are made by the viewer, this will immediately trigger the ‘fear of authority’ action in the panels, by standing straight, stiff and ‘at attention’.
Daniele Bartolini is a director, installation artist, playwright and performer born in Florence, Italy. He has graduated from the University of Florence and has collaborated with some of the leading Italian companies and artists. He will be conducting a series of immersive performances from 15th to 20th titled Unfinished Pieces about dreaming, sleeping, anonymity, the sky and everything in between. The actors will be performing alongside the audiences, embodying new roles every night. The audience can participate in person at Khoj Studios, or participate virtually from their own homes via Skype. You can be a listener, reveal your secrets, be a character of the story or make up a big lie about yourself. Shows are performed over the night time, the time of the day in which we’re most fragile and our desires, weaknesses and dreams, come out more strongly. The concept of Unfinished becomes a signature style of a series of experimental pieces conceived as open structures in which the audience can interact as they would like. Each piece finds its final completion only with the presence of the spectator, or better said, the participant, which moves forward, finishes, informs and changes the “game” structure.
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EXHIBITION "Experience House : Creating Immersive Spaces in Residence" a show of immersive installations and performance art at KHOJ Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension > 17th to 20th November 2016
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