Mixed media installation; image print on satin, chain and binder rings
Video: Single-channel on screen, 16.9 format, colour and sound, 3 min 36 sec
Music: Lux 1 (Original Mix) by Seefeel, Starethrough EP, Produced by Warp Records
Video: Single-channel on screen, 16.9 format, colour and sound, 3 min 36 sec
Music: Lux 1 (Original Mix) by Seefeel, Starethrough EP, Produced by Warp Records
2021
Rite of the
Time Teller
Using a collection of moving images to formulate a digital archive for the future, Rite of the Time Teller is an introspection of gestures and practices passed down through ancestral, everyday rituals within the Tamil household.
Existing between fiction and nonfiction, autobiography, documentary and documentation, subject and object, the installation reimagines the repositories of collective existence accumulated through ancestral practices of knowing and being as a Southeast Asian Tamil diaspora.
To locate is to return; the living archive as an embodiment becomes a site of an imaginary continuum between the present and future, eventually shaping experiences, realities, and environments. The appearance of the feral, golden hand symbolises its role in shaping the present archive while mediating between the past and the future.
Existing between fiction and nonfiction, autobiography, documentary and documentation, subject and object, the installation reimagines the repositories of collective existence accumulated through ancestral practices of knowing and being as a Southeast Asian Tamil diaspora.
To locate is to return; the living archive as an embodiment becomes a site of an imaginary continuum between the present and future, eventually shaping experiences, realities, and environments. The appearance of the feral, golden hand symbolises its role in shaping the present archive while mediating between the past and the future.
Priyageetha Dia, Rite of the Time Teller, 2021, mixed-media installation.