Sandip Pisalker participated in the most recent peers Residency in the summer of 2008. While in delhi, Sandip made a cloth broom with strips of coloured cloth stitched by a tailor near the jama Masjid. He took this broom to the places of worship of various faiths- a church, a gurudwara, a temple, a mosque and swept these spaces. through this ritual act of cleansing inherent in all belief systems, he was also collecting the dust, as it were, of these different places and faiths together. He invited worshippers to do the same, recording his own performance as well as the act of the other ‘performers’ on video. playing with the ideas of community (the participants were not artists or actors and in fact were undertaking this act as one of worship) and communal- a word which in the unique context of the subcontinent refers to sectarian divisions, the video work titled ‘Fill in the blanks…’ raises many questions through a simple action. as part of this ongoing project, Sandip also performed and filmed at three locations in Mumbai adding to the corpus he hopes will include religious spaces all across india. of the seven videos shown in ‘Filament’, the first was of the broom being made, which was displayed as an iconic object at the head of the display. the narrative was slowed down or speeded up through editing resulting in the creation of different rhythms.