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.

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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
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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 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.