The
images in the video show a being continuously
buried under waste. Whether it is paper, wood
waste, ash or flowers every use is manifest
by a residue, which we term as waste. In present
context 'waste' is a loaded term. It not only
characterizes the city and its living but
also reflects the contradiction within it
as someone’s waste becomes another means
of livelihood, problematising the whole notion
of what constitutes the act of throwing away
of being not wanted. The other dimension the
video deals the being in a stasis is locked
into this eternal cycle of burial and exhumation.
We are in a state of continuous burial as
our own waste drowns and chokes us physically,
psychologically and metaphorically and this
process is marked by a perpetual resistance
to it as we always try to dig ourselves for
a breathe of air. It is this struggle to live
and to breathe that marks the self that we
build for ourselves. The audio of this work
also traces this cycles as the sonorous chant
(Gregorian Byzantine Chants) invoking the
otherworldly metaphysicality fades in and
out with harsh noises of real life competing
yet existing on the same plane as the other
of each other. |