Item 3148 - the white dog

Video

the white dog is a single channel video work created based on Sinha's audiovisual performances using field recordings and video material collected by the artist on trips to Kolkata, India, home of his extended family. Structured in 4 parts, the white dog is a deeply personal open narrative/documentary work---a meditation on sound, image, and identity, distilled through the in/between-ness of Sinha's experience as a south Asian Canadian artist interested in how tradition can influence and inspire contemporary expression. Created specifically for the juried exhibition at the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2009, the white dog is a fixed expression of the artist's improvisational shruti performances, which use these materials in a performance context. The soundtrack was culled from various performances of shruti in Berlin, Toronto, and the Banff New Media Institute, and was reused as the soundtrack to this work. From statement by the artist: Through these multiple displacements, the place of India is brought here, to the place of the screening, mediated through my own perceptions, wrought into something approximating my own experience, a displaced person, simultaneously at home and away, everywhere.

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Països: Canada

Master es dvd NTSC falta sinopsis en catalan falta sinopsis en castellano This work was commissioned by the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Belfast, 2009

• Catalan

• Latin

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