This website requires JavaScript, please enable javascript or update your browser.

Listening session: Pulsating Apotropaic Kisses

with Pinky Htut Aung and Nandita Kumar, curated by Avita Maheen (in collaboration with Kalponik Rekha)

Pulsating Apotropaic Kisses, a collaboration with Kalponik Rekha curated by Avita Maheen, extracts contemporary instances of intergenerational information perceived in the multifaceted juxtaposition of embodied knowledge and intrinsic global antipathy, the sight of the stature of subtraction reverberating in the seemingly current semblance of aural divinations.

কাল্পনিক রেখা / Kalponik Rekha (Imaginary Terrain (s)) is driven by fragments of displacement and phenomenological resistance to objectified romanticism; of relics of an erased history; of the pencil that scattered the soil; of the soil that dissolved our grandmothers grave into the river; of the river that cries when the মেছো ভূত arrives; of longing for the whispers that lie in the trunk of the lace-fita hawker.

Avita Maheen (or, two4.41139) is a Bangladeshi sound and media artist, writer, and curator. Graduating from Media Technology at Leiden University, NL, Maheen's autoethnographic research explores sensory and spatial perception in sound and space. Maheen founded the platforms Kalponik Rekha (Imaginary Terrain (s)) on contemporary audio visual performances in the South Asian diaspora and Chaya Chobi on experimental filmmaking.

Pinky Htut Aung is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist from Myanmar. Growing up in a family of musicians, music has been a central part of her life, though Pinky first explored her practice as a visual artist. She managed an experimental noise music community called Noise in Yangon, and was an active member of the band Bouhinga, until relocating to Paris in 2022. She currently composes music for film and documentaries, and continues to work within the visual arts.

Nandita Kumar is a new media artist and system designer who works across art, science, technology, and community. Her interest lies in propelling the human race towards sustainable development, which focuses not only on environmental protection but also on social development. Kumar’s current projects are heavily research-based. She is interested in “the data,” its representation, and how one communicates that to a larger audience. Her data-driven artistic experiments probe a given topic through its nature, scarcity, politics, interdependency, and utility, and simultaneously explore methods of engaging audiences through interactive sound installations.

Fri 5 Apr
14:30
-
15:30
Page Not Found