Ingredients of Encounters: Dismantling Site Lines
Carefully attend
a floating site
a live arc-hive
of fragmented trajectories of the present.
Ayesha Singh and Jyothidas K.V. respond to the IAF facade by hosting fleeting gatherings, extending the drawn lines to lines of poetry, readings, conversations, and ephemera. Encountered as a participatory performative picnic, this archiving exercise looks to engage, capture, and share questions that form the construction of our perspectives.
Carrying a weighted horizon, each participant reads, engages in and contributes to a shared gathering on top of a 'picnic mat' made using remanants of the facade's perspective lines- weaving and dispersing their precision. The text read contained 17 stanzas, a few of which are written below.
Remember,
bodies as pillars
erased through time
as lines of sight
must contain only one thought, one mind, one people
a one point perspective
Of decolonised histories
The curation of camaraderie,
the collective cultural congregation of closed doors
Pillars to post, post to pillars,
A loosely bound web of checkposts
A swaying mesh of floating pillars,
Held in place by frothing words.
One, two, three and four,
post to pillars, pillars to post
A constant rebuild of lies over the rubbles of truth,
up again, down again.
Supported by
India Art Fair performance
Image courtesy
Khushi Mishra, IAF and photographer Jeetin Sharma