Abstract
ABSTRACTThis photo-essay sutures and structures a massive pool of images emerging out of an art-project conducted by the author, CAMP Studio, Mumbai, and Kenneth Cyrus (cinematographer), in the context of Response, CIMA 25th Anniversary show, held during January-February 2018 in Kolkata. The project negotiated the multi-planar history of the city, and thus, by emphasizing on its heterogeneity, recreated a visual record of its chronotopia (Also see Foucault, ‘Of Other Spaces’, 22–27). The process was possible by setting up a camera on top of a defunct theatre – Gem (Entally, AJC Bose Road); and, by shooting ceaselessly for over 10 days an immersive and 360-degree time-space movement was generated. The project was first streamed live and thereafter, the edited material was staged inside the theatre, with which the (local) people/participants interacted. A play between recorded events and liveliness, the video (1 hour) brought forth multiple memories of the place (Gem), the locality and adjacent spaces, as well as a range of narratives of regarding noted and trifling events. The project involved a cinematic journey through the cityscape, and an engaging and challenging artistic quest by exploring the ‘kino-eye’. The omniscient camera-eye provoked us to become intimate with our immediate and distant contexts, and produced a dense tapestry of the city.
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