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Before I visit Vidarbha: a sound installation

Before I visit Vidarbha: a sound installation

Across last month at Khoj, I worked on a processing sketch titled, “Before I Visit Vidarbha.” It attempts to carry forward my exploration of urban food systems as a part of the PetPuja project.
Background: Some 90,000 farmers have killed…

CitySpinning @ Khoj (pictures)

CitySpinning @ Khoj (pictures)

(from left) prayas, attia, sandeep, nisha and manmeet

at work on the processing sketch for “Before I Visit Vidarbha” in my studio

putting up the photographs of my performance with the modular jacket for our “open studio”
 
one of the…

module for jacket: portable snack kit

module for jacket: portable snack kit

The module (attached to the jacket in the picture below) is made from milk packets and cloth. Four pockets are sticked to a foam piece with velcro to stick to the jacket.
The four pockets can be used to sprout…

“Voice” under the safdarjung flyover

The message behind the jacket says: “Yeh meri jagah hai” (this is my place).

the flyover doesn’t belong to the public works department (PWD)


the bedroom under the flyover
When I stood under and around the flyover, my jacket saying…

“Voice” @ the Parliament + Rashtrapati Bhavan

The message behind the jacket says: “Yeh meri jagah hai” (this is my place).

at the gates of the rashtrapati bhavan

walking in front of the north block

@ the north block parked in a “tow away zone”

the guard…