at Documenta13
June 7, 2012 - Sept. 15, 2012
Two exhibitions:
The Boat Modes in a house in the Karlsaue Park
and with Pad.ma on Afghan Films, in the ex-elisabeth hospital/ex-chinese restaurant.
Returning to Kassel in August for this:
http://andandand.org/events/non-capitalist-web/
The Boat Modes wall text:
A boat has many powers: to gather a society
in its making, to distribute goods, to carry people and ideas across
places that, it seems to us, are more different than ever before. The phrase “Boat modes”
has a practical use here, which is to express the
peculiar and flexible ways in which these boats are manifest in the
Western Indian Ocean. But it also has other possibilities; such as to follow
Bruno Latour in asking a question “in a way that a specific kind of
agency appears.” A matter of tone, or key. Or to create further paths
from these boats’ continued expansion of categories such as “sovereign”,
“pirate”, “container”, “free trade”, “money”, and
“work” at such points where known maritime histories and economics seem to
say: “End!”
Modes appear at the intersection of forces and environments, and are arranged here in the shape of the constellation Pleiades, or Thurayya
in Gujarati and Arabic navigation maps. They accompany a film that
takes us on a journey from the Gulf of Kutch in India to the U.A.E. to
Somali ports, and back. The songs in the film were all found, married to
the cell-phone videos that you see.
The film is 60 minutes, and starts on the hour.
Credits
Co-commissioned by Documenta13 and the Sharjah Art Foundation
Camera: Shaina Anand, Junas Bhagad, Mrinal Desai, Sultan Hajji, Zakir Hussain, Mohammed Rafik, Ashok Sukumaran, Siddik Umer, the crew of Safina Al Zilani, Al Madina Mangrol, Al Naved, Sabir Priya and many others.
Editing: Shaina Anand, Sreya Chatterjee
Cruciforms: Ashok Sukumaran, Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, Prerna Bishnoi
With thanks to: Sanjay Bhangar, Zinnia Ambapardiwala, Ranjana Dave at CAMP
Fahad Bishara, Jatin Dua, Kaizad Gherda, Nida Ghouse, Engseng Ho, Eungie Joo, Faiza Khan, Altaf Makhiawala, Radhamohini Prasad, Edward Simpson, Samia Rab, Julia Stoff, Kathy Zarur, and the Foundation for Arts Initiatives.
