SHAINA ANAND

By using low-cost video and audio technology, this project tried to reveal the process of documentary filmmaking where media production, consumption and reception were simultaneous.

Shaina Anand put a series of open circuit TV systems in 7 places in a neighborhood in New Delhi – in a street, in a home, in a lane, in a factory, at a doctor-cum-social worker surgery (his own home), a beauty parlor in Khirkee, in a lane (same one again). Each of these became chapters in which performers and audience created and consumed. After the event the footage generated was lent to the participants to be copied freely.

This project is informed by the artist’s continued interest in media and information politics and by the deconstruction of experimental video as a documentary medium. By using low-cost and DIY video and audio technology, this project tried to reveal the process of documentary filmmaking by creating an experience in which production, reception and consumption of media are simultaneous. Real time video looped over the course of the project created role transformation; subject is performer, voyeur is subject, performer is auteur, audiences are witnesses and so on. Therefore, author, reader and subject share a common status.

To know more about this project: www.chitrakarkhana.net

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