Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Reena Saini Kallat
Untitled (Map/Drawing) detail
Year: 2011
Medium: electric wires and fittings, 10 min audio loop
The flows and movements of labour migrants across the world have resulted in cultural exchanges not to mention the social and economic implications. It has not only allowed us to free cultural identities from a physical place but see us all as entwined in a symbolic web as it were. When I was asked to conceive of a wall work for the Konsthall during the Goteborg International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2011, keeping the curatorial premise in mind, I decided to work with electric wires to form the drawing that will trace patterns of movement of migrants globally, where multitude of actors interact without knowledge of the overall situation. I think of this work as a drawing project, made with wires that essentially transmit energy and information from one place to another. It is said that the electricity is the same in electrical equipment but the expression of electricity differs from one appliance to the next. By changing the instrument of this quasi-cartographic drawing from a pencil line to a wire, I’m interested in the notion of the map as dynamic, ever changing, streaming and transferring data with the global flows of energies and people, as the courses of these travelers intersect.
courtesy:oneart
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Reena Saini Kallat
Untitled (Map/Drawing) detail
Year: 2011
Medium: electric wires and fittings, 10 min audio loop
The flows and movements of labour migrants across the world have resulted in cultural exchanges not to mention the social and economic implications. It has not only allowed us to free cultural identities from a physical place but see us all as entwined in a symbolic web as it were. When I was asked to conceive of a wall work for the Konsthall during the Goteborg International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2011, keeping the curatorial premise in mind, I decided to work with electric wires to form the drawing that will trace patterns of movement of migrants globally, where multitude of actors interact without knowledge of the overall situation. I think of this work as a drawing project, made with wires that essentially transmit energy and information from one place to another. It is said that the electricity is the same in electrical equipment but the expression of electricity differs from one appliance to the next. By changing the instrument of this quasi-cartographic drawing from a pencil line to a wire, I’m interested in the notion of the map as dynamic, ever changing, streaming and transferring data with the global flows of energies and people, as the courses of these travelers intersect.
courtesy:oneart
#art #newmedia #worldmap #detail #popularart#contemporaryartist #reenasainikallat#artvillecontemporary #artgallery
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