laal aasmaan, hara gulaab, neeli dharti β’ 2024
16mm multi-projection performance
Fragments of unfinished verses swirl in an orbit, finding their way to each other, bewitched. Images from the past, present and future, all collide to construct wild imaginations. Colours form, hide and show; pass through, like shadows of clouds; fleeting.
With this expanded cinema performance, the intent is to break form. To arrive in transition. To stay in the moment, and transcend with its passing.
With three 16mm projectors and projectionists as live performers, we enter worlds of visual juxtapositions and photo-chemical experiments. The images in the performance are all created by hand β shot & developed, and some contact-printed, by the makers, along with physical interventions. Created with Namrata Sanghani and Karan Talwar, at the Harkat Lab. Sound by Baan.
Laal aasmaan, hara gulaab, neeli dharti previewed at the India Art Fair YCP opening in January 2024, and has since been performed at Harkat Studios, and later at L'Etna - Paris, Festival Obskura - Rennes, Worm - Rotterdam, Labos Berlin and Crater Lab - Barcelona, as part of the Harkat Summer Tour'24.
