hello? who is speaking?

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In Dec 2023 i was invited to create a large room installation at a 250-year-old Portuguese hospital building in Panjim, Goa for the Serendipity Arts Festival. The concern was sound-image dialectic, among other senses entangled, hosted within Veerangana Solanki's curated set of "Synaesthetic Notations". At the time of making this work, i'd been absorbed in Mladen Dolar's lyrical paper "One Divides Into Two" (e-flux journal #33, 03/'12) with David Bowie's plaintive "Ground Control to Major Tom..." on loop.

I responded with a sound+video+light-object installation entitled "Hello? Who is Speaking?" from intertwining threads of the ever-forming self: •• Who is this who, •• constituting and dissolving in the Other? •• What are these layers of fortifications, who forbade us from speaking? •• What is this profound loneliness, •• of one aware of itself reaching into the impossible chasm from you; •• the dialectic of the self as one, the desiring one, as two; •• the futility of reaching, the inevitability of reaching, of touching lack, of love.

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A false sun rises, its light in perpetual noon, it speaks to you, it tells you what to see. All you see is who you are. Are you?

At noon, you will be split, the split of awareness, awareness of the other, the other beyond a chasm, the chasm a void — Will you see? Will you choose to see?

How do i reach you? Not a sky, not an earth, not even light beneath my feet to lift me to you there; yet i see you here. All we have is more or less. Por que não fala? Fala.

Stay. Let me scratch your skin. Stay.
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This piece formed the sound for the room.

credits

released February 21, 2024

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Satya - Vocals, Keyboard, Words
Rob Frye - Woodwinds; Chicago
Kanishka Sarkar - Production and Technical Consulting; Berlin

Samples
Lua Branca, Chiquinha Gonzaga, 1910; Performed by Bert Alink
Gaúcho - Corta Jaca, Chiquinha Gonzaga, ca. 1895; Performed by Markus Staab

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Acknowledgements
BICAR, Bombay

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