Palash Bhattacharjee: December 2022

Friday, December 30, 2022

Lesson

Performance
Asian Art Biennale, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka,1 December 2022
Materials: Microphone, Books, notebooks, pen, dice
Curated by Abdus Salam

Exhibition view: Documentation based book.

Photo Courtesy: Sheikh Nafi Hassan

This performance was a nuanced response that stemmed from my lesson, experiences and emotions, expressed through immediate actions. The actions of this situation were conveyed using a combination of auditory and visual elements, integrating noise into the performance. The viewers were exposed to unconventional activities facilitated by high-frequency microphones, featuring institutional objects like books, notebooks, and pens associated with the text.

Performance at ShilpaKala Academy, Dhaka

1 December 2022

Photo Courtesy: Shadman Sakib

'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