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Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India, (ongoing)... link

June 26–October 10, 2010
A show curated by Sandhini Poddar, Deutsche Guggenheim museum, Berlin. Two works by Desire Machine Collective's, Residue and Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted are showing in this exhibition.

Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted

Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted (2008/10), is a nine-channel site-specific sound work and is currently installed as an interactive installation along the façade of Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. So it occupies a space “outside of the museum”, and in the public space. The work begins two hours before the museum opens and continues two hours after the museum closes. Its audience is the many passers by on the street of Unter Den Linden, one of Berlin’s main thoroughfares. The work seeks to summon ‘false memories’ of nature via the soundscape of the sacred forest. ...read more

Periferry ... link

Periferry is a nomadic space on ferry for hybrid practices. It is a trans-local initiative which looks at a critical uses of technology, collaborative experiments with local communities in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner.

It works as a laboratory for people engaged in cross disciplinary practice. The project focuses on the creation of a network space for negotiating the challenge of contemporary cultural production. It is located on a ferry on river Brahmaputra. Periferry aims to promote experimentation in art, ecology, technology, media and science and to create a public space and public domain, physical as well as virtual for critical reflections

 

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Sacred... link

A Special Edition brought out as part of the show Being Singular Plural. It is closely linked to the sound installation Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted (2008/10) for which Desire Machine Collective "collected" sounds from a sacred forest in Meghalaya.
Sacred is a technological "sound map" that replaces colonial mapmaking.
The path through the protected area was precisely documented by means of GPS. In the printed version, QR codes are positioned along the trail, which can be decoded using a smart phone, thus making the original recordings audible again.

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