paintings, sound on loop
This is the second iteration of the work Infra Earth to Extra Sky featuring three new paintings and a sound work that accompanies it.
This work considers the living organism and its environment through an infrastructural lens. Three situations are brought forth where an idea/object/organism unfolds how the techno-sphere plays out historically and within present day sociability. The project’s premise rests on an understanding that communication that takes place between the layers that exist within the earth (underwater, underground, terrestrial, the sky) and outside of it (into the cosmos), creating a loop of information flow back and forth. This movement is also an announcement of sound and time in motion, a proto-animation of what is to come through re-contextualising words like invisibility and infinity through the lens of technology and its apparatus.
The three situations – one involving a coconut, another involving an elephant and a third that talks of snail – coincide with infrastructure, belief, and the city. In this confrontation a delicate and often imbalanced see-saw with human and non-human sociability is broken open. Each of these stories try to understand how it has been a part of our society historically, and why it is important to remember and retell it in our present time. They return to us in the form of politics, in the form of infrastructure, ideas for progressive governance, and in the form of the dead refusing to give up on the living.
Aarti Sunder 