Yusmarg Collective Kashmir & Students Kochi Biennale
Medium: Web II Performace II Installation
Dimensions: variable
Year: 2021
Residual Landscape uses narrative responses to the ‘domicide’ in Kashmir as a starting point for an understanding of the personal and collective to conceptualize processes that intersect peoples’ lives in different ways. The turn to narratives encompasses the flux. The flux that exists between the individuals and the collective, between the personal and the political, the intimate and the public, between those who are on the fringe of a crisis and at its centre simultaneously to envision an open-ended future.
A sense of exposure to risk in political armed conflict renders people powerless. By creating a language that emphasizes empathy, conversations, exchanges and flux, this project attempts to provide an insight into the nature of such vulnerabilities. Language is explored in ways that are conducive to empathy, association and identification with larger communities across the world.
Credits:
Its first iteration was supported by Kochi Muziris Biennale,2020, and showcased in States of Disarray: Practice as Restitution (4th edition of Kochi Students Biennale). Artists who participated are: Yatish Agrawal, Ifra Jan Shah, Iqra Nisar, Nasir Ahmad, Nazia Kounsar Shah, Snober Jeelani Shah, Tabish Nissar Malik, Tayib Hazoor Mughal, Mohammad Umar Bhat. It was later showcased at the WRONG biennale through the cyberpark pavilion.
Showkat Kathjoo, Gowhar, Zeeshan Nabi, Shaina Anand (Camp Studio), Faculty at Institute of Music and Fine Arts, Kashmir University, Kochi Muziris Biennale