Palash Bhattacharjee: Halt

Monday, September 10, 2012

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

'Palash Bhattacharjee entered the scene armed with an array of performative arsenals. Alongside photo-video installations developed from his performances and site-specific installations, he inserted another crucial element, namely sound. From his early works based on photo and video installations in 2009 to that of his more recent near-absurd performances and video installations, he articulates the neural through the experiential. Since 2011, he set in motion a practice that forked into two divergent and also overlapping strands – video and performance. His single or multi-channel videos and performances are the result of his meditations on body's communion with spatial reality often set in a temporal framework. His reorganizes multiple approaches as he sets out to restore an event from life, which is at once overwhelming and abstract. Muted and distant in their articulation, his works seem to test the water at the edge. Still, Palash's 'reality' leaves no room for illusion.'

-New Media the locus of rebirth, Shahman Moishan with Sharmillie Rahman and Mustafa Zaman, page 36-37, 22th Issue, Depart Magazine, ISSN 2310-6832