[Sarai Newsletter] PROPOSITIONS: ON TEXT AND SPACE III

[The Sarai Programme]

PROPOSITIONS: ON TEXT AND SPACE III
Zuleikha Chaudhari

19th  - 18th OCTOBER 2011
11 am till 5pm daily. Closed on Sunday and Diwali

CSDS Library
29 Rajpur Road, Civi Lines, New Delhi 110054

Finissage (Closing Party) on 28th October 6 pm onwards at the same venue.

The viewer will encounter a book, a light structure/installation and an audio
text.

“Now, as he read, his eyes glanced over the pages and his heart searched out
the sense, but his voice and tongue were silent. Often when we came to his
room… we would see him thus reading to himself. After we had sat for a long
time in silence -- for who would dare interrupt one so intent? -- we would then
depart, realizing that he was unwilling to be distracted in the little time he
could gain for the recruiting of his mind, free from the clamor of other men's
business.”                                                Augustine,
‘Confessions’, Book 6, Chapter 3

The audio-text, the book and the installation will constitute an intertwined
consideration of the act of reading, one seeking to examine the curious tension
between a reader’s real physical surroundings and the place[s] of the
imagination that the act of reading can locate him in.

Text: Rehaan Engineer

Photography: Arunima Singh/ Suruchi Dumpawar/Lucida

Layout: Arunima Singh/Lucida

Sound/Music: Ish Shehrawat

Supported by the India Foundation for the Arts under the Extending Arts
Practice programme.