Navjot Altaf

Title: Lacuna in Testimony,2003
Three channel video installation
7 Minutes 21 Seconds
Looped

Venue: Between the 2 glass buildings under the canopy

Acknowledgements:
Direction -Navjot Altaf
Camera - Rishi 
Stills - Navjot Altaf
Editing - Rishi and Anthony
Studio - Samudra Tulika, Santacruz, Mumbai.
Sound - Extact from 'Ahmedabad Testimonies' recorded by Navjot Altaf, 2002.
Sourced material to create collages - includes stills from various national and international publications. 

Concept
This installation is an attempt to listen to testimonies and to question whether one can enumerate and describe events as they remain opaque when one truly seeks to understand them. Since testimonies contain a lacuna, the threshold of the in distinction between the inside and outside is seen as a connection - a dialogue. The video incorporates footage , stills and recorded interviews with individuals in Ahmedabad shot by the artist in 2002. It also contains Indian and International archival material.