roar against the roar

roar against the roar

site-specific performance, video (single channel, color, sound)

I-beam, iron nail, shore, city, body/bodies, sound

2015

Track 16 gallery, Los Angeles

Irrational Exhibits 11: Place-making and Social Memory, 2019

Roar against the Roar is a confrontation of power between the sea and the city. The shore in between immerses itself in urban dwellers’ dreams, and is also a strong witness to the human encroachment. This site-specific performance, at Juhu Beach, Mumbai, India, aims to imitate and illustrate the tangibility and the intangibility of the site, by scratching, marking and producing screeching sound. Here, a building construction material is used against its own self, that is—an iron nail against an i-beam—the very structures that are used to build our urban homes.