Shadow Walkers
audio vignette | duration 16 mins| mats |Mp3 players | 2010
A walk down memory lane by devoted umbraphiles, those who are addicted to walking in the shadow of the moon… Seven voices, ranging in tone, depth, age, experience and perspective, talking about the single most transforming celestial event, a total solar eclipse. The vignette is played on MP3 players arranged in any open space under the sky. Mats provide a surface for people to lie under the sky / stars and listen to the piece. There is an intimacy to the experience. As few as one, as many as 50 people lying down together gazing up at the sky, mimicking the act of amateur astronomers world over, and like them linked by common experience, in this case of the audio files, of the experience of this ‘collective rest or sleep’.
SHADOW WALKERS | audio vignette | duration 16 mins |10 mats |10 Mp3 players | installation at SARAI, Centre for Developing Societies, New Delhi, August 2010
