Gravity
Audio/visual installation, presented at Jaaga Creative Common Ground, Bangalore (2011)
This artwork is the combination of a triptych of lit canvas and a triptych of sound. The sound immerses the space around the canvas, consisting of three real-time generated modulated tones. The lit canvas reveals close-up details of precisely-ripped paper, on an endless, uninterrupted descent.
The sonic software and the visual software communicate over a network, with each of the three audio tones leading the pace and position of each visual tear. The piece runs continuously, generating new tones and visual responses as it goes, and therefore each performance is unrepeatable.
This piece was inspired by the discovery, soon upon arriving at the Jaaga grounds for a 3 month residency, that the Jaaga structure was to be dismantled at the end of the residency. At the time there was no sense of where Jaaga would go or what it would become. The piece deals with notions of ephemerality, of frustration and division, and of the desire to hold onto the past.
- Read blog posts on the creation and dissemination of this work.
- Read blog posts on the Jaaga Residency program, during which this work was created.
- See the related work: Reflections.
- Watch a video interview on the subject of this piece.