Fragment of Self -Decoding

#Voice 3

Transitstation

Curated by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer - Smith and Charles Ryder

 
(Where Do I come from? Where do I belong? Where I am going?)

Audio Voice of myself

a Poem narrating the State

I arrived somewhere near me

Where I am

Where I am

Where I am

Lost in the crowd

I …I …..I

Slowly Arriving To myself…

Grasping the self

Breathing Deep …

Lost in the crowd

Slowly…., Slowly… I am arriving to myself

Seen Not Seen

The Play of Light and Dark

The play of Hide and Seek

I am arriving

I am arriving somewhere near me

Light and Dark

I love seeing myself

Love the non-presence

Criss Cross Lines of Infinity

Trying to reach trying to reach

Lines of Infinity

The infinite Space is it inside our mind? or it is outside in the space?

If it is infinite and it needs to expand, can it expand within?

I am arriving somewhere near me

Sometimes I whisper like a child and laugh at myself….

I am Alone within the crowd

The infinite Existence around me is like small light of the city

The Spark of the city

Sometimes it sparks less

I am Lost again I am lost again

Sometimes I am playful seeking Happiness within..

And sometime ….. Sometimes

Silent

Sometimes Like Baby, I cry

I arrived somewhere near me….


I arrived! Arrived I arrived ….

This performance was about a fragment of Self – Decoding myself in Parts –this work was done with a fragment of self-recorded transmission of self when I visited an art exhibition in London where light-based works were exhibited documenting fragmented self my presence in that particular time. I do it again and again in a different spot as if seeing a different version of myself. Keeping this as a base I introspected on my own identity and existential question and to know ‘true self’ or to question on this fragmented ‘illusion’ or ‘Maya’.

 

Dimple B Shah 

5th September 2021 

Strive for Democracy

International Multimedia Art Festival

Curated By Nenad Bogdanovic

Strive for Democracy is a performance action is about the human striving for freedom. It is about fighting for human rights and equality, justice, and the voice concerns of the people. Here in this performance, ‘Wrapped, Statue form' symbolically represents a relic monument of past and future. Statues are sculpted to remember some great person who has contributed to society. Here wrapped 'statue' represents the people who do not have a face.  

The statue is struggling for its freedom and striving to achieve it by freeing itself. Through this metaphorically represents the Striving of suppressed Humanity, the one big part of society that has always struggled for its freedom in the past, present, and future. It always was and is still striving for its right in the whole globe without having any face. It is not just about a country. It is regarding the inequality that is everywhere? The rich country suppresses the weak country, the rich suppress the poor, and the people in the higher position dominate the people in the lower. It strongly talks about today's political situation in many countries and is the voice of the people. The Capitalist countries rule other countries by economically dominating the weak countries.

The story of Striving is not new and an old fact. Even today is not changed when we look at Myanmar's neighboring country once was part of my country then 'Burma'- is struggling to fight against a military coup. So many lives are already lost. Artists got arrested, and we need to voice their struggle.

In My own country, we see inequality in the whole system. In India, we are still fighting the Dalit problem of the old caste system. People are still struggling to get back a balanced and equal society for all. This performance is an attempt to bring subtly through my action.

Dimple B Shah 18th April 2021