Act II (Hum Logos) is a 45-minute audio film spliced from the Pad.ma collection of the Radia Tapes. It covers two months after the Indian general elections of 2009, with the new cabinet in power. The film asks: if debate around these tapes was about whether they are edited or not, or as Justice Mukhopadhay put it, "splice has been added", then what can further editing do?

A screenplay in Courier 12pt melodramatic format, spanning the first three days of lobbying for cabinet spots, in the wake of the Indian general elections of 2009. The dialogue is entirely from phone taps made by the government. The screenplay slows them down and asks: what kinds of environments and scenes may lie behind them, and how are they connected?

Printed screenplay and IVR-based phone line, audience can type in scene numbers to hear dialogue in the original voices. Also performed as a reading.

A project of listening, including with our ears, to some materials that seem to not touch us directly, but make up our "environment".

Sept. 23, 2011 - Dec. 8, 2011

Experimenter, Kolkata
September 23, 2011 - December 8, 2011

This exhibition proposes an after-form and before-form for two of art's (and our own) usual objects. The first is a film that was shot over last year on the English Channel that is now re-installed in Kolkata, making a certain claim for its universality. The second is a "not-yet-film" treatment of the Radia leaks as a screenplay, with an audio guide as its soundtrack. Both these are moments lit up by separate alignments of, broadly, government, technology, and opportunity...

Nov. 30, 2024 - April 24, 2025
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

Nov. 14, 2024
Public Trust, Philadelphia

Screening and conversation in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema & Media Studies department and CARG. At old Slought/ new Public Trust.

6:00-8:00 pm

Nov. 7, 2024
12 Gates Art, Philadelphia

Film screening, and conversation 6-8:00 pm

Oct. 10, 2024
Union Docs, NY

Geographies of Belonging

Oct. 3, 2024
Rice University, Houston

Sept. 21, 2024
Art Jameel, Dubai

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

Sept. 19, 2024
Columbia University

We are proposing this term to think more broadly about extraction, waste, dependency, rear-guarding, mediatic conversions, in- and out-sourcing, and other aspects of chains of translation and steps of decision and production.

Aug. 27, 2024 - Dec. 20, 2024
Center For Experimental Ethnography, UPENN

with Visiting Scholars CAMP
(Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran)

We begin this fall semester's film class with a moratorium on audio-video capture.
100 days without your own images:)

Aug. 1, 2024 - Aug. 31, 2024
Spectacle Theatre, NY

The Neighbour before the House
+
A Stone's Throw

August 1 – 7:30 pm
August 7 – 7:30 pm
August 12 – 7:30 pm
August 31 – 7:30 pm
with filmmaker q&a

July 14, 2024
Urvar, Borivali

CROWDED HOUSE
machines, skins, traps and five-year plans

CAMP, Urvar and Studio ON invite you to a one-day Open House of artworks and interactions with the 2024 Inlaks Fine Art Awardees, who have been in residence in Borivali for the past 4 weeks.