Wastage Abstract

Site-specific Project

Cheragi Art Show 2013

Open Space at Cheragi Lane, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Organized by Jog Alternative Art Space

Cheragi Lane is well known area for printing press. I had a plan to create art activities from my temporary involvement with press. I selected the area, because here people are involved with press for their live and livelihood. I took videos of some presses and press equipped areas of Cheragi Lane. I recorded the process of printing. I collected the left over parts of different kinds of publications like leaflets, booklets, posters, newspapers, magazines etc.Then, I made posters with them, use the wasted parts of publications.

After completing the collage posters I pasted them on the wall of Cheragi Lane with my installation and some area of Cheragi Lane. In installation I used a huge of wastage papers from the presses. I installed dual channel videos- one of them showed press machine’s working and the other one shows the place of cheragi where presses held. I installed the work near the press office of Cheragi Lane.

Dual channel video sample 

Wastage Abstract from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

Images of installation 

Video detail

Wastage Abstract,  Double Channel Video from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

Wastage Abstract, Double Channel Video from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

No Need

Single Channel Video, 2013

I don’t need so much love
Wordless lips humble life
I don’t need, no need…

                  -Rudra Muhammad Shahidullah


No Need from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

When I cannot find words, the unspoken words create an action inside me. In this video I bind myself with a thick thread.
I recorded the hardship of the bindings in a thick thread in detail. Here I recorded myself  with severe hardship holding the camera in one hand and doing the performance with the other.

The video dedicated to Shahbag Movement (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Shahbag_protests) and all online bloggers and activist in Bangladesh. During the movements time made the video. Some snapshots of this video work published about the movement. I share the video in online. Yet I do not exhibit it any event .  

pish

May 18, 2013, Performance, Solo Performance Art Evening,
Organized and Supported by Gallery Studio 21, Kolkata, India
Materials: Colorful ribbons, flute, Ghats (Clay Potteries), snow, rose leafs etc.

It was the time to go back home soon, it was the natural and political disorder, it was the time to be responsible for something to do for my family and friends, it was a restless time to think about the justice and verdict, death and struggle of people and it was the situation of mine to make chaos.

The Gallery, Studio 21 invited me to present live performance in the last week of India tour. In that moments my visa had a few days to stay in India. During the moment my homeland Bangladesh was going through some terrible situation like political turmoil, collapsing of garments factory, trial of War criminals of liberation war of Bangladesh, aggression of fundamentalist parties, minority suppressions etc. So I was struggling to find an expression of my emotional distress.

pish from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

I collected some local potteries (Ghats) which are available in Kolkata. I decorated 2 potteries with flowers, ribbons, leafs. One of the potteries I used for make an annoying sound of flute. I gave audiences some flutes. During the performance I decorated the floor with ribbons, roses, bandages, and made sound from the ghats (pottery) and audiences also made sound by flute with me. I sprayed the snow on the gallery. When the ribbons ended then I broke the Ghats, and stopped all sound.

Photographs: Manas Acharya, from Studio 21 Gallery, Kolkata, India.