A Slightly Curving Place
Audio play in English
Video installation without language
Curated by Nida Ghosh
A Slightly Curving Place responds to propositions opened up by Umashankar Manthravadi in his practice as a self-taught acoustic archaeologist. It was in the mid-1990s that he began his research in acoustic archaeology by mapping and measuring the physical dimensions and acoustic properties of Ranigumpha – a double-storied structure of rock-cut caves dating back to circa third century BCE, generally believed to have been a monastery, but arguably a theater.
In the exhibition, a slightly curving place is to be found not at the apex of the universe but under an ambisonic dome of speakers. Here, an audience of listeners might gather to sense a past they cannot hear. The sound that arrives is a record of sound as it was. Elsewhere, on projection screens, the body of a dancer rotates in one direction, as it makes an image of time that turns in another.
The exhibition is realized in collaboration with and with contributions by Umashankar Manthravadi, Bani Abidi, Mojisola Adebayo, Vinit Agarwal, Sukhesh Arora, Anurima Banerji, Lilia Di Bella, Moushumi Bhowmik, Madhuri Chattopadyay, Padmini Chettur, Arunima Chowdhury, Emese Csornai, Padma Damodaran, Hugo Esquinca, Jenifer Evans, Eunice Fong, Tyler Friedman, Janardan Ghosh, Brooke Holmes, Alexander Keefe, Sukanta Majumdar, Robert Millis, Farah Mulla, Rita Sonal Panjatan, Ayaz Pasha, TJ Rehmi, RENU, Uzma Z. Rizvi, Sara, Yashas Shetty, The Travelling Archive, Maarten Visser and others.
July 23 - September 20, 2020
Exhibition hall 2, Lobby
HKW, Berlin
#SoundArt #Video #AudioPlay #Performance
More about the project can be found here.
