From dak at sarai.net Tue Oct 18 21:52:07 2011 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:52:07 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] PROPOSITIONS: ON TEXT AND SPACE III Message-ID: PROPOSITIONS: ON TEXT AND SPACE III Zuleikha Chaudhari 19th - 18th OCTOBER 2011 11 am till 5pm daily. Closed on Sunday and Diwali CSDS Library 29 Rajpur Road, Civi Lines, New Delhi 110054 Finissage (Closing Party) on 28th October 6 pm onwards at the same venue. The viewer will encounter a book, a light structure/installation and an audio text. “Now, as he read, his eyes glanced over the pages and his heart searched out the sense, but his voice and tongue were silent. Often when we came to his room… we would see him thus reading to himself. After we had sat for a long time in silence -- for who would dare interrupt one so intent? -- we would then depart, realizing that he was unwilling to be distracted in the little time he could gain for the recruiting of his mind, free from the clamor of other men's business.” Augustine, ‘Confessions’, Book 6, Chapter 3 The audio-text, the book and the installation will constitute an intertwined consideration of the act of reading, one seeking to examine the curious tension between a reader’s real physical surroundings and the place[s] of the imagination that the act of reading can locate him in. Text: Rehaan Engineer Photography: Arunima Singh/ Suruchi Dumpawar/Lucida Layout: Arunima Singh/Lucida Sound/Music: Ish Shehrawat Supported by the India Foundation for the Arts under the Extending Arts Practice programme. From dak at sarai.net Wed Oct 19 11:30:39 2011 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:30:39 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] PROPOSITIONS: ON TEXT AND SPACE III Message-ID: <07194587211358a961aa3a83030d4a27@mail.sarai.net> PROPOSITIONS: ON TEXT AND SPACE III Zuleikha Chaudhari 19th - 18th OCTOBER 2011 11 am till 5pm daily. Closed on Sunday and Diwali CSDS Library 29 Rajpur Road, Civi Lines, New Delhi 110054 Finissage (Closing Party) on 28th October 6 pm onwards at the same venue. The viewer will encounter a book, a light structure/installation and an audio text. “Now, as he read, his eyes glanced over the pages and his heart searched out the sense, but his voice and tongue were silent. Often when we came to his room… we would see him thus reading to himself. After we had sat for a long time in silence -- for who would dare interrupt one so intent? -- we would then depart, realizing that he was unwilling to be distracted in the little time he could gain for the recruiting of his mind, free from the clamor of other men's business.” Augustine, ‘Confessions’, Book 6, Chapter 3 The audio-text, the book and the installation will constitute an intertwined consideration of the act of reading, one seeking to examine the curious tension between a reader’s real physical surroundings and the place[s] of the imagination that the act of reading can locate him in. Text: Rehaan Engineer Photography: Arunima Singh/ Suruchi Dumpawar/Lucida Layout: Arunima Singh/Lucida Sound/Music: Ish Shehrawat Supported by the India Foundation for the Arts under the Extending Arts Practice programme. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Propositions- On Text and Space III. E-INVITE.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 245040 bytes Desc: not available URL: