Other Species, Other Times (India/US/Mexico, 2001–14)

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Introduction/Anuj Vaidya
Anuj Vaidya is an artist, educator, and curator who lives between India and the United States. He codirects the 3rd i SF International South Asian Film Festival and teaches queer studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey

In a reversal of contemporary exhibition practices, this program presents single-channel video art and installations in a repertory film space, and suggests novel ways of considering bodies in movement. These bodies are neither discrete nor constant; they challenge borders and boundaries, and prefer entanglements with other species and other kinds. Varied in their consideration of the digital and in their use of performance practices, the works are primarily by artists living in Mumbai, Goa, and New Delhi.

A woman lies among pigeons in a public plaza in Logic of Birds, her body hospitable to their pecking and fluttering; man and bird merge in a play between painting and video in Man with Cockerel; an island sets the stage for bodies becoming other in Fjaka; and melting ice clocks the duration of a row in Iceboat. These performances of time and in space offer new utopias: a universe inhabited by myth and desire is the setting for the queer eco-fable Between the Waves; ancient ruins and spaceships offer a promise of time and space travel in the Forerunner; and a landscape comes to life in the liminal time between digital and analog in Night Noon.

Logic of Birds (Sonia Khurana, India, 2006, 5:44 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artist)

Man with Cockerel (Ranbir Kaleka, India, 2001, 5:41 mins, Color/B&W, Digital video, From the artist)

Fjaka (Munir Kabani, Nikhil Chopra, Jana Prepeluh, India, 2014, 13:06 mins, Color, Digital video, From Chatterjee & Lal)

Iceboat (Neha Choksi, India, 2013, 13:17 mins, Color, Digital video, From Project 88)

Between the Waves: Channel 1, A Fable in Five Chapters (Tejal Shah, India, 2012, 26:14 mins, Color, Digital video, From Project 88)

Forerunner (Sahej Rahal, India, 2013, 12:13 mins, Color, Digital video, From Chatterjee & Lal)

Night Noon (Shambavi Kaul, US/Mexico, 2014, 11:38 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artist)

Total running time: c. 90 mins

• Curated by Lalitha Gopalan and Anuj Vaidya. Copresented by 3rd i Films, thirdi.org. Special thanks to all the artists, Chatterjee & Lal, and Project 88.

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