Shubhangi Singh: Bringing a Poem to a gun fight

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Dust is a kind of interface – scientific yet mundane. Within the domestic, it becomes a proto-archive, a record of what occurred.

𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝑮𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 offers domestic dust, text, textile, and armour as objects that may hold data revealing how we view labour, matter and identities entangled within domestic as well as public spaces.

The personal complicates the body’s presence within shared spaces, exerting force on bodily mobility, safety and autonomy within public spaces. 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝑮𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 puts forth the two parallel inquisitions and looks at dust and body concurrently within discourses on movement, visibility and identity.

𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐛𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐡’s practice as a visual artist and filmmaker responds to contemporary politics and the interconnectedness of production and reproduction of popular and everyday material. She often draws upon the empirical as well as existing recorded knowledge to address movement, identity and queries related to the feminine and its relationship with the public sphere.

Singh is the co-founder of New City Limits, an initiative to facilitate creative viewing and practice in Navi Mumbai, India and she currently lives and practices in Helsinki.

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