It is possible that the spectacle may be witnessed simultaneously as erasure and overload.

Empty and full of everything at once.

They said the spectacle is the historical moment in which we are caught and as an extra, added feature, you spin on the planets’ carousel for free…(FromHere by Wislava Szymborska)

The sound environment around the two videos will be unstable in its transmission; it has been composed using recorded sound, spoken text, film soundtracks and composed sound and music. It will be heard and experienced as fragments of narrative, interrupting and interfering with each other, and at times altogether disappearing. [Some of the tracks themselves have been made without editing; I was also exploring in this residency structures in real time and not always its manipulation].

This will hopefully produce the variations I am building around ideas of spectacle and the peculiar landscapes of entertainment and consumption in which we participate.

The spectacle that falsifies reality is nevertheless a real product of that reality. (From Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord)

Snow City is a winter wonderland in the heart of Bangalore – a massive theme park covering 12,500sq.ft with temperatures maintained at subzero degrees centigrade. Entire area is filled with snow made out of water and air, which is eco friendly and edible too.

The circus with its enormous traffic in replacing and recruiting men, animals and apparatus(From A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka) is almost tragic in its scale and obsolescence. Here, it is also an ode to Jonas Mekas’ 1966 film, Notes On The Circus, an in-camera edited diary on the extravagant outtakes of the circus. This video was made on the last day of Gemini Circus’ Bangalore show in 2012, very close to Snow City, on Parade Ground.