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| Transgressions Video / Shadow Play Installation, 7 minutes looped, sound, 2001 |
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was the best of times We had everything before us We were all going direct to heaven. Vada pav Rs. 3, Airtime Rs. 1.49 Nimbu pani Rs. 3, Airtime Rs. 1.49 Hello Can you hear me? Of course you can hear me. I speak Orange, I speak Blue I speak your speak just like you... |
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| The reverse painted
cylinders form an interminable movement of shadows on a wall that spans
14 meters. The wall has images from videos projected on it. Therefore, images
appear in 3 registers, the painted image, the shadows and the projected
image. These are accretions of Orientalism harking back to19th century British rule in India. But the sound track pulls one into the present period, with its postcolonial aggression of the WTO and the GATT, through a sinister sounding poem. |
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3 DVDs, 4 Cylinders with armature, each cylinder 120 cms diameter X 150
cms, 4 rods 30 cms, 4 electric rotating motors, reverse painted Mylar
/ film, 3 LCD video projectors (2000 Lumen) wide angle zoom lens parallax
correction, 3 DVD players, 1 amplifier and 4 speakers and 2 black benches. |
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copyright
© 2004 Nalini Malani |