Grazing

Akansha Rastogi
by

razing is duration. It treats the reader as a grazer and exhibition space as a prairie. It images a network that keeps coming upon itself even after walking further and further or follows practices of relay to retrieve a new distance each time. A reminder of the instability of an event. The space of seeing sees itself, not as a reflection but as a parasitical twin. It is calm but eerie. Parasite is not outside anymore but inside, and also a twin conjoined twin inseparable; both die if detached. I am thinking of a self-referential structure that is an opaque metaphor pretending to talk about something else, but describes only itself demonstrates a perversity and an obscene relationship with images. This is the space where translation happens. And has the potential to create a chain of surrogates (substitutes)

or where the separation of the body from the bodily happens and defiles the bond of origin. Suggestion of eventuality. In six structures of Grazing, the pasture simulates the presenter, the presentation and the presentee. To view the state of viewing is a loss of content. More importantly, a loss of speculative subject. Grazing is built on this lacunae and this scraping along the surface. These six structures can be anything that one sees, listens, reads, and plays with, browses through, steps onto, walks through, rests on or something which is made visible only after certain conditions are achieved. This exhibition implies being one with the ground where one ruminates.
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Fielding These are events. Locations and Distributions. Fielding essays a state of agility. Swift changes in positions. About straying and craning the neck, browsing and concentrating occasionally. Fickleness, haste, slipping and missing, and stretching of the hand.

Methods (A) These are processed images; an exercise in mesh-making. To make visible a condition a sense of disarray. Packets/ fragments

Exhaustion is preparing a stage set or set of stages. An event in construction; structural, in-built exhaustion. Points of rest. Caesura. A queue to pass through. Tautological or stuck at the point of departure. Suggested stillness and movement.

There is a Rumour that this is about Bangalore This exhibition field, now grazing space is emptied of all artistic content and re-filled with new stretched - mediated relationships : between exhibit, curator, artist, the exhibition space its content, its grazers, accessing, archiving, retrieving, past events and documentation as a form. Grazing is a conceptual paradigm that delays any kind of arrivals and provokes the idea of lurking : using different strategies like appropriation, imitation, cooption, mediation, by certain insertions and displacements of several kinds. A PROTRUSION

Lurking demands staying. A state of employment. To hold and keep holding. The one who lurks is tied but left lose. And can mark the periphery, account for the inside and the outside better. We wait. There is flatness in the way the glass encases the object, to behold. The ambush at once feels warm and safe; it also smells of the moment of breaking out. Desks: Dummy Conversations Mics speaking to each other or to same subject. Statements tied together, with reading lens. Parameters, descriptions, vocabulary An Exchange about building, making and running spaces. Corollary. Encounter in-between stream of data relaying, not the end points in the process. Shakiness of the Ground Built upon vulnerability and misunderstandings, a surrogate, self-referential structure. With embedded heroism in protecting its relationship with recycle bins. Corruption / Virus. Dangerous moment - a perversity. Involves multiple servers, seeding, leeching - a huge network system \\An exercise in comprehension suggesting appropriation, giving control, sharing and at the same time a way of recalling, of gathering of evidences and data collection. Nature of Material: TEXTS statements, presscuts, analysis, self-thoughts, confessions and questions.

Grazers, Here is an elevation. The step up to the platform leads to the pastures. This prairie-field an assembly, an aggregation, a direct address, a staging. Devised to slow down your pace. It asks Builds conditions of/for viewing, an interiority that makes the space of seeing see itself. Illustrates this continuous moment, your own alignment with the field. Introduces you to gestations of reading and writing. A reminder of the instability of an event It is a state of mind; thinking time; chewing. A stillness It reiterates and retrieves sameness. an expanded practice, an exercise, connected to the surface.

doesnt take you further.

Duration

Hosts a parasitical twin in its own body conjoined, inseparable; that feeds on itself to survive.

Artist-Participants: Abhishek Hazra, Kiran Subbaiah and Prayas Abhinav Text Copyright: Akansha Rastogi ZONES OF CONTACT, Proposition on the Museum 18th January 30th September 2013
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