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One Meter of Truth (Emotion) (2014)<\/a>
Shown at: National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi (2014)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During a rehearsal process for a work being made with theatre artists, Raqs began to seek a language for states of feeling, and the body, that were at a tangent to the way in which a standard repertoire of emotions are described. They were drawn to a 10th century manual for poets and performers by Abhinavagupta, philosopher and aesthetician from early medieval Kashmir. Abhinavagupta proposes a scheme for combining emotional and bodily states to produce a cascading series of affective registers that the actor can play with. Through this work, Raqs enters into the territory of things that we know, but defy classification as new sensations are created by bringing unexpected things together. This work can be seen as an annotation that lists one of those sets of un-recognised possibilities: states of being and feeling so fleeting, so real and so enigmatic, that a whole new vocabulary has to be invented even to begin talking about it.

One meter of truth seeks to challenge this new classification itself: can even these suffice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Meter of Truth (Emotion) is a recension of \u201836 Planes of Emotion\u2019 exhibited at  \u2018Asamayavali\/Untimely Calendar\u2019, National Gallery of Modern Art (2014).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See also: 36 Planes of Emotion<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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