video : installations : 2005 – kya dekh rahe ho?

[aka Sanskar Peepshow]
© 2005; Premiered at Projectile Arts INTUITION III Gala, MyMoon, Brooklyn, NYC
A multi channel video installation that inspires the viewer to negotiate the curiosity to invade ones’ personal space and privacy. Resembling a peepshow, most of the videos are viewed through holes in a corrugated metal fence, similar to that through which the footage was shot (rare scenes of naked naga babas’ preparatory shaving for initiation rites during the Kumbh Mela in Ujjain, India). However above the fence is a projection loop of a young naga baba jumping up and down trying to peer over the fence at the viewer on the other side. Having its premier at a NYC Gala event provided quite the juxtaposition of opposing lifestyles attempting to get a glimpse at one another.