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The project takes the discursive design outline in employing a framework to look into the trauma and timeline of subaltern people and their resistance. The framework employed is to take the significance of the perpendicularity of the backbone to the surface of the earth and its diverse interpretations across the fields.

 

The work construct artifacts and video scenarios that re-appropriate the timeline and positions Dalit Bahujan’s spinal column on the scale of geo-trauma to caste trauma and centers their experiences of trauma and its possibilities to restructure the Subaltern future.

 

The video works construct an artifact in a fictional setting, so the assumption of its operability allows suspension in the audience. This artifact acts as an artifact for the future. Considering the present situation brings or triggers an urgency to address the issues generated by the operation of caste systems. An artifact is an act of creating a myth of the future. The artifact, which a rhetoric user wears from the working class, through which he would access the intergenerational trauma. This artifact stands only for asking the audience questions: Do they need such a product in the future timeline, or would they see it as a piece of must-need equipment from a different point of audience view?

Spine as media and methaphor

Spinal clicks of resistance

2022

2021

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Spine as media and methaphor

Video : 10mins
Mix of live shoot and CGI Bldener enviornment.

 
Full screen and Headphones recommended 

Spinegear - artefact

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Spinal clicks of resistance

The work is part of a larger investigation I am currently involved in, and it is to reframe the idea of technology from the lens of people of the soil, people who work with the land for productivity, labor, and love. The video expresses the context of the subaltern voice and its alternate timelines.

 

The inquiry is to excavate the spine in the terrain of resistance and trauma, by connecting the dots from previously available archeological artifacts and linking them to create a fiction to explain the caste resistance from the past. Further, the speculative work is not projecting an imminent or hint at the plausible future to be imagined. Instead, it creates a scenario to inscribe the creation of a new understanding of history and the present world. The speculative narrative unfolds the arc of the carbon spine to the electronic spine.

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Video : 7 mins 56 sec , Sep 2021
Mix of live shoot and CGI Bldener enviornment.
Full screen and Headphones recommended 
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