Good Morning

Cheragi art project 

Cheragi Pahar Lane at Chittagong, 2014

Dual channel video with sound

Television, projector, newspapers.
Organized by Jog Art Space

images - video Installation at Chearagi Lane

Cheragi Lane is a busy area in Chittagong which is almost popular for press, newly established Bank, Garments factory and this is a center of newspapers’ offices. Alongside, this part is surrounded by residential area. This place is also popular as a conversational spot of the city where people of different ages and profession gather.

The newspaper hawkers who distribute newspapers throughout Chittagong city collect those papers from Cheragi Lane, they come first at Cheragi in every morning. This remains very busy for three to four hours in the early morning. They come quickly and go for two or three times in Cheragi Lane for collecting different newspapers to serve their clients. Most of them use the bicycle for distributing papers.  I was there with my camera to record the video of those busy moments and connect myself to the part of their job.

It was a significant morning of everyday life in Cheragi Lane which remains unseen from regular busy time. I uncovered these busy moments which happen in every morning at Cheragi.  I asked some of them (who looked interested in speaking in their busy moments) their name, serving area and their mobile number.

Then I presented the two-channel videos in the same place during the show. One of the videos presented the documentation using a projector with a screen, and the other one showed texts on a monitor where I mentioned their names, areas of service, and mobile numbers to provide newspaper service for the public. In an unusual way, I serve their contacts for newspaper service. The audience who watched the video could keep their contact number to contact them.




Videos detail 

Good Morning from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

good morning from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

video sample

 Good Morning, Two Channel Video Sample from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

Twist

Performance
16th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2014
National Art Gallery, Shilpakala Academy,
Dhaka, Bangladesh
December 1, 2014.


It is one of my sound oriented performances where I used sound and microphone.  At first, I broke some bricks using hammer and made the noise hear to the audiences using microphone. Then I sprinkled some talcum powder on the dust of bricks. At the same time, I was coughing.  After sprinkling powder, I blew the dust using electric blowers with sound and noise. This performance is a reaction to the power of political upheaval. 

Twist from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

Nocturnal

Blueroof art community,Hetangyuese, JingJiang district, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
September 19 -- October 31, 2014
http://www.swpassart.com/news/201410/153_203.html








I communicated with audiences of the exhibition space of Chengdu, China from my country . I have a series of photographs of night which I took with digital camera, android  phone camera, video camera.  I sent  350 selected images for exhibition. I offered audiences to exchange their views about night and asked them to send their photographs of night, I also offered them to  take any of the printed images of my exhibition. I accepted all the  images of audiences who have taken photos with iPhone, mobile phone or any kind of camera. I drafted my hand-written offer for exhibition which is translated in Chinese and displayed with my works.

Although I have no experience of the audiences of Chengdu, I connected myself through particular visual experiences.  Some of the audiences sent me their night visions expressing through images. In this way, the activities of the 'Nocturnal' became a phenomenon which could excite our spirit. Night is dark, but it's not absolute- we are able to continue our journey in that darkness. My 'Nocturnal' is a kind of journey. If  people feel the motivation to carry on that journey with me, it's a chance to communicate with those people from every corner.

Image sample- 'Nocturnal' (which I have taken)

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Image sample- 'Nocturnal ((Exchange photographs from Chinese audiences)

drop the matter please

Single Channel Video Installation with sound

3 Minutes 48 Seconds 

First Show at Young  Artists Art Exhibition 2014

National Art Gallery, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Some events of my childhood,

I wanted to play some games that others play but did not know how to play or could not play that game. Some toys were so attractive to me that I could spend a whole day only with those toys without disturbing others or without being disturbed. I could throw those toys on stairs or on the floor. I got the idea of this video from those unfulfilled desires. Still, those memories inspire me to live the life in the midst of limitless suffering, lacking and dissatisfaction.

I made the part of this video project ‘Drop the Matter Please’ in a bit unclear, soft light to projection on terrace floor.

drop the matter please from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

I made another part of ‘drop the matter’  in 2011 taking the scene and sound of dropping marbles from stairs, which I presented in 2012 in Dhaka Art Summit.

Image 19th Young Artists Art Exhibition, National

Art Gallery, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2014

drop the matter please from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

Untitled

Performance

Shilpakala Academy Chittagong,  Bangladesh

December  21,  2013

 http://vimeo.com/98241383
Untitled from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.


The performance dedicated to martyred of Liberation War of 71 in Bangladesh. The performance event named '71 Minutes and 16 Seconds' which is actually inspired by date 16 December, 1971.  The year, 2013 was a special year for (Shahbag protest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Shahbag_protests) the trial of war criminals. Though I expressed my solidarity with the movement, I was reacting with the activities about the chaos of political propaganda which is actually creating difficulties against peoples’ claim for trial of war criminal.

 In my activity, I broadcasted my recorded voice where I announce the name of Pakistani armies and their Bangladeshi collaborators called Rajakar, Al Badar, Al Shams  who are accused of war crime.  I threw talcum powder on the floor of gallery. Then I was cuffing and I broadcasted it on the microphone. When the talcum powder  was finished I cleaned the dust and powder using a blower and broadcasted noise of blower  highly loaded using the microphone.