LATENT CONCURRENCIES

A BETA PRESENTATION BY  THE BATCH OF 2024 
OPEN SPACE DOCUMENTARY ARTS PROGRAMME
15, 16, 17 NOV, 2024 11 AM ONWARDS

LATENT CONCURRENCIES  is a participatory new media installation; having a database consisting of several stand-alone documentary artworks from various stages of development. It showcases two distinct geographic and socio-cultural environments – Auroville and Ladakh – inviting critical engagement with the site/s and subject/s, creating scope for passive to active observation for the audience, their voluntary participation, intentional navigation and creative interpretation.

Recognizing the limitations and bindings of traditional means, this is an initiative to design such modes of engagement and experience detaching images from reality, producing/reproducing/ deconstructing new representations.

Modes of engagement include experience designs, participatory installations, film screenings, idea pitch, talks and discussions.

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE: 

15th November 2024

10:00 to 12:30
Students’ Short Documentary Film Screenings
Student Filmmakers: Indronath PK, Jahnavi Pradeep, Kartik Sreenivasan, Kotteswaran Prabhudas, L.V Sai Krishna, Maya De, Mayank Chaudhary, Pia Sukhija, Pia Sukhija, Sanjana Reddy, Stanzin Angdu, Yoni Vell, Logeswaran M, Ajay Sarma, Michelle.

14:00 to 15:30
Presentation & Discussion:
Impressions, Imagings, and Impulses in Documenting Realities
By L.V. Sai Krishna & Sanjana Reddy
This presentation explores case studies in the art of documentation, with a focus on nature and stages of its process. It examines how communities and their worldviews are represented, unpacks cinematic strategies that shape these portrayals.

16:00 to 17:30
An Experience Design / Video Art Project:
Fragmentations of Fragmentations: An Experience Design of Auroville
By Daniel Eshal, Jahnavi Pradeep, & Maya De
Anchored in Auroville, this experience design mirrors the form of spectacle. Reflecting upon Marshall Mc Luhan’s postulate, ‘Medium is the message’, the curated experience keenly observes the weaponization of cameras and smartphones in spheres of resistance and protests. Recording devices are used not only to passively record, but also to proactively prevent or perpetrate violence. The curation of media reflects mobilised crowds, activated emotions, and agitated actions being confronted by state regulatory mechanisms and law enforcement agents. The experience is designed to make us reflect on the social scars capsulated and commodified as a spectacle perpetually circulating as digital footprints holding the power of forming / reforming / deforming public memory and opinion.

18:00 to 19:30
Open House-Welcome Note
In Presence of Chief Guest Mr. P.S. Vinoth & other Auroville dignitaries.
Orientation to the OSDA Programme; Introduction to the participants’ projects; & Felicitation of participants.

Introduction to P.S. Vinoth and a look into his previous film ‘Pebbles’
By Logeswaran M.

20:00 to 21:30
Special Screening & Discussion: 
Kottukkaali (2024) By P.S. Vinoth 
A drama about a young woman who falls in love with a man from a lower caste, resulting in familial outrage and pagan cleansing. 

16th November 2024

10:00 to 12:30
Students’ Short Documentary Film Screenings
Student Filmmakers: Indronath PK, Jahnavi Pradeep, Kartik Sreenivasan, Kotteswaran Prabhudas, L.V Sai Krishna, Maya De, Mayank Chaudhary, Pia Sukhija, Rupa Paul, Sanjana Reddy, Stanzin Angdu, Yoni Vell, Logeswaran M, Ajay Sarma, Michelle.

14:00 to 15:30
Presentation & Discussion:
Mosaics: Understanding Film Photography with Sasikanth Somu
Facilitated by: Jahnavi Pradeep & Stanzin Angdu
OSDA Participants explore Auroville and imprint their early encounters on film and digital media. This curation, provides a glimpse of their Auroville experience through a collective photography exercise. 

15:30 to 19:30
Assemblage: Mapping Trails
By L.V. Sai Krishna & Pia Sukhija
A participatory archive of actualities, memories, incident recalls and reflections using both repository means of a traditional archive and the active engagement of the participants. It calls for people to map their own experiences/memories/reflections providing a broader area for an arrangement of spatial temporalities and a deeper engagement with shared memories.

18:00 to 19:30
Presentation & Discussion:
Violence and Media By Daniel Eshal
A presentation by Daniel Eshal about violence in media, going through its history and going through examples of how it may be used. 

20:00 to 21:30
Special Screening & Discussion:
I Will Come Back Dancing in the Dunes (2022)
By Stanzin Gya
A documentary about an 11-year-old girl named Otgo who dreams of becoming a dancer in Ulan Bator’s Opera.

17th November 2024

10:00 to 12:30
Special Screening
And Toward Happy Alleys
75min/Documentary/India
By Sreemoyee Singh
A documentary offers a glimpse into the struggle of women, artists and political dissidents in Iran.

14:00 to 15:30
Pitch for Project  Development:
-A Glimpse of the Future, Kharnak and Kharnakling, Ladakh 
By Kartik Sreenivasan & L.V. Sai Krishna

14:30 to 19:30
Excavating the Past: Journeys through Ladakh and Beyond
Discoveries of petroglyphs along the Indus and Zanskar Rivers of Ladakh opened doors down a time tunnel. Our installation of the filmed realities here acts as a proposal to expand beyond the Ladakh territory alone. In continuing to move forward by tracing backward, we ask: How might artefacts of the past inform one’s tryst with identity and belonging? How can we transgress boundaries of ancestry and geography to map existence?

18:00 –
Open house

20:00 to 21:30
Potluck! 

HIGHLIGHTED EXPERIENCE DESIGN / VIDEO ART PROJECTS:
On 15,16,17 Nov

Students’ Short Documentary Film Screenings Produced as a part of Open Space Documentary Arts Programme in Auroville – Ladakh, 2024. (10:00-12:30 on 15,16 Nov 2024)

How does one know if one forgets something? By Kartik Sreenivasan, L.V. Sai Krishna, Stanzin Angdu

The waves will never stop By Kartik Sreenivasan, L.V. Sai Krishna, Sanjana Reddy

Poetic Rhythms By Pia Sukhija

Notes for the Present By Jahnavi Pradeep

In Sickness and In Health By Maya De

When the Song is Over By Maya De

Chiaroscuro By Maya De

Shan By Mayank Chaudhary

Rewoven By Rupa Paul

Disconnected Echoes By Indronath PK (Polash)

Shangri-La By Kotteswaran Prabhudass

Sound of a Land By Yoni Vell

The Poetics of Change By Logeswaran M

Muharram in Leh By Ajay

Irumbai Temple By Michelle

Odyssey By R Meethun

Moments of Joy By Santosh Manik

Tar By Pinar Ekinci