Crossing the Everyday life of Video
April 13, 2014 - April 14, 2014
at
Asia Art Archive in America
Brooklyn, NY
3:30 pm, 13th April, 2014
All
gestures in video should be measured, or rubbed up against, its own
ordinary. Pad.ma is an archive primarily of footage and not films. It
tries to catch this ordinary, and some of its qualities and evolution,
in the Indian context in particular. It collects materials and works
intensively through them to try and make sense of intentions,
technologies, accidents and effects. It asks whether a film can be
beautiful from the inside as well as the outside. It thus enquires about
not only in what is visible, but also about the backend in which
machines or souls that propel or cast images and sounds in a particular
way. Even though the video ordinary is constantly overflowing and
receding from our attention, Pad.ma tries to parse some of it, for
threads that may lead us to new paths.
This hour-long assembly
from Pad.ma, made and presented using the website, tells a story of the
evolution of the video everyday; its practices, effects, appearances and
affirmations in relation to an everyday life that itself is changing.
