Two channel video installation
Exhibition: 17th Asian Art Biennale,
National Art Gallery, Shilpakala Academy,
Dhaka, Bangladesh. December 2016.
Coursing through History could be seen as a reaction against the naturalized legacy of the colonial past which, needless to say, spilled over into the scattered and fragmentary readings of the Liberation war of Bangladesh. This audio-visual work comprises a double channel video with one screen showing the wounding of books with a ball point while the other captures an acceleration of the speed of reading both in image and sound; in essence, an analogy for destabilizing the grand historical narratives by vandalizing the textual composition of the pages of history.
Text edited by Sharmillie Rahman
Video still, ইতিহাস আলাপ ( Coursing through History ) 2016
Video sample
Exhibition: 17th Asian Art Biennale,
National Art Gallery, Shilpakala Academy,
Dhaka, Bangladesh. December 2016.
Coursing through History could be seen as a reaction against the naturalized legacy of the colonial past which, needless to say, spilled over into the scattered and fragmentary readings of the Liberation war of Bangladesh. This audio-visual work comprises a double channel video with one screen showing the wounding of books with a ball point while the other captures an acceleration of the speed of reading both in image and sound; in essence, an analogy for destabilizing the grand historical narratives by vandalizing the textual composition of the pages of history.
Text edited by Sharmillie Rahman
Video still, ইতিহাস আলাপ ( Coursing through History ) 2016
Video sample
