Spark

Performance

Dhaka Art center, Dhaka

Event Senses: 7, performance at Dhaka Art Center, December 3, 2012

The activities of the performance is sort of reaction. I called it ‘Spark’. The reactions which is not often visible, has come out as a visible action. ‘Spark’ is a condition of invisible reaction.

Once upon a playtime

Single Channel Video, 3 Minutes 4 Seconds, 2012, Chittagong.

This video is one of my childhood memory. I made some sound effect of vehicles. I used my voice with some kids.  The video starts with the sound of vehicles and smoke on the toys. The sound continues, some drop of water fall and then the toys crashed on an unknown way.

Once upon a playtime from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

The art exhibition titled “Path!”, a tribute to Bangladeshi independent film director Tareque Masud, cinematographer-journalist Mishuk Munier and  their team Wasim, Jamal, Mustafiz  who died in a road accident near Ghior Upazila on 13 August 2011 while returning to Dhaka from Manikhanj on the Dhaka-Aricha highway after visiting a shooting location.  Path!(পথ!) is a Bengali word which English meaning 'The Way!'.

An Essay

2012

Installation

July 12-16, 2012

Bishuad Bangla, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Photo print, Nets, Clips, Sting, High Pressure Sodium Light

This is an essay, a visual essay of my present condition. Here I followed my everyday living and tried to look myself . I ran after myself .Taking some other elements from my place and time I introduced some of my unexpressed views. -This is my offer.

 

 

 Installation Images

I followed myself on my recent everyday life activities with the camera. All the photos are taken by my self during the working time. Every photo has shown my face or parts of my body.  Most of the times I used mobile camera. Then I selected approximately 500/ 600 photos ( sometimes changed during the show) and  made small size like  7cmX9cm for installation.   I printed the photos on photo papers and then I attached the all the photos with net which is installed surrounding the whole gallery room. I used a sodium light with the gallery arrangements. 

   

 

Sample of the photos

Halt

Single Channel Video,
First Show
July 12, 2012, Bishaud Bangla, Chittagong

 http://vimeo.com/52981391
  Halt from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

Some unexplainable sudden happenings can make a chaos before I see or understand about those. Memories become blur. The obscurity is a kind of consequence. In this way, I am going on where I feel risk in my every step and then the bitterness of stumbling. The short video translated from my own personal experiences about nightmare and wakefulness. I recorded my face tumbling on mud and its sound. I recorded this with a bleak light.

Video Still

HORN !

Show at Open space of Cheragi Lane, Chittagong
May, 2012. Video Installation and Performance


In our everyday life, we are sometimes warned, sometimes conscious, or sometimes embarrassed by the harsh sound of vehicles’ horn. I have adjusted the horn of the vehicles in a dress through sensor and battery. When someone move wearing this dress and if he comes closer to other person or thing, the bell will ring.I documented a video  where some young men  wore the shirt  to perform on some area. Then I installed the video and dress on the open space  at show. The people who felt  interest about the dress after knowing the activities of it, they performed wearing the dress.
This activities mainly dedicated to the Mirsarai tragedy of Chittagong where the student killed by road accident.

Horn! from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

The Road

Performance
PAN Asia Festival 2011, South Korea
I did a couple of performances in two different places- one is at Seoul Mullae Hall and another is at Gowanju Museum of Art in South Korea. These performances are a kind of my reaction about the unexpected events of our lives. That reaction is about sudden death and accident of my friends, relatives, well-wishers.

Seoul Art Space_Mullae
October 18, 2011,
Materials: Shaving cream, Razor, Flowers, Toys Car, Bag.








 I sprayed some shaving cream on the floor. Then I took shaving cream from the floor with razor and rubbed the shaving cream on my face.Then I placed some toy cars on the floor covered with shaving cream. I broke the cars one after another. Then I kept some flower on that place. I hold a bouquet on my chest for a few minutes. I used some sound effects recorded from street, for the performance

Gwangju Museum of Art
October 22, 2011
Materials: Flowers, Toys( Snow and Flutes), Colorful Ropes

http://vimeo.com/73214877
The Road from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

 I used some colorful ropes. I attached these ropes decorated with flowers, and Flute (Korean Called ‘Piri’, these kind of flute) and gave the audiences one end of the rope and some ‘Piri’ . I played a ‘Piri’ and audiences played with me that created a sound effect. I walked playing the ‘Piri’ and kept flowers after some steps. At last I stopped playing and broke ‘Piri’ and then I sprayed snow all over the place.