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Tables of Destiny, Overturned\/\u092a\u0932\u091f\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0941\u0906 \u0928\u0915\u094d\u0936\u093e Video installation At 5:27 am, five minutes less than an hour before sunrise, on the 12th of September, 1918, in the South Eastern Russian town of Astrakhan, not far from the Caspian Sea (a lake so big that it gets named a sea) the poet Vlemir Khlebnikov finished writing a passionate manifesto that he titled \u2018An Indo-Russian Union\u2019 . Here, he advocated an erasure of all frontiers and borders within Asia, and said, \u2018Great Thoughts grow by the shores of Great Lakes\u2019. A hundred and seven years later, here, in the landlocked city of Delhi, (which seems to have forgotten its one river, and where finding a horizon to look upon is always difficult) we are accustomed, especially on hot, still afternoons of early summer, to thoughts that make no claim to greatness.
Shown at: ‘Zangezi’, Zurich Arts Weekend, Immersive Arts Space, Zurich<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Tables of Destiny, Overturned<\/em> invokes a quiet resistance to grand declarations. Instead of destinies inscribed boldly on imperial tables, the work conjures slow arrivals\u2014hesitant, flickering on modest footstools of chance. They come in twos and threes, in a quiet cavalcade of human and extra-human forms. The installation offers a meditation on time, place, and the unpredictable mathematics of being. Luminous flickers, like ghostly holograms, mark the presence of imaginary numbers, folding history into passing minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n