pixel:dust: A Presentation by Sonam Chaturvedi and Priyesh Gothwal | Project Showcase@IFA | June 27, 2024

In the times of screen-driven life, has night been deferred? Have our habits of scrolling through phones and working through the night transformed the sense of time at night? Is there a direct interplay between the society, technology, and time of a pixelated night? 

Join us to explore how Sonam Chaturvedi, Priyesh Gothwal, and several artists from across the world created an artistic response to this in pixel:dust, a project under the Explorations category of our Arts Practice programme.  

pixel:dust is a multiform lexicon with its first edition - Siu:Yeh (宵) by Sonam Chaturvedi. It consists of responses and contributions by art practitioners—Priyesh Gothwal (India), Merve Ertufan (Turkey), Oisin Moran (Ireland), Merv Espina (Philippines), Suvani Suri (India) and first draft (India). It is an assemblage as an Artist-box of artist books, DIY origami, snacks, smell, seeds, playlists, recipes and other objects that make the night and its flickering vocabulary palpable.  

The lexicon examines the dilation of time across a deferred night lit by digital technologies/ pixels. It looks at the endurance and exposure of the contemplative nighttime within a techno-capitalist landscape, and how its textures and frictions can be understood through the multiple tangible forms. In this showcase, the presenters will talk about how the project explored the way time spent awake at night stimulates a spectrum of habits, social behaviours, cultural milieus and associations that are too obscure and fragile for our existing vocabulary to grasp. 

Thursday, June 27, 2024 | 06:30 PM IST onwards

Register on Zoom or join us on Facebook Live. 

Sonam Chaturvedi is a multi-form artist and educator based in New Delhi, India and a visiting faculty at the MFA Programme at Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida. She is also the AIM Programme manager at Artreach India, Delhi. 

Priyesh Gothwal is a visual artist based in Delhi, who works with drawing, text, video and found or appropriated materials. He manages and teaches in the BFA program at OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, and was a resident artist at the Ashkal Alwan- Home Workspace program in Beirut, Lebanon (2019-20). 

John Xaviers is Programme Officer at IFA.

This session is organised as part of Project Showcase@IFA, a series of presentations to showcase, discuss and engage audiences with the diverse projects we support and implement across programmes.

Image: Sonam Chaturvedi

Sonam Chaturvedi is the Project Coordinator of this Foundation Project implemented by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) under the Arts Practice programme. This was made possible with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment Fund.