Project description

In 2017 I created a large-scale multi-media installation which included a wooden structure, sound, video and performance.  Inspired by white tantric yoga instructions delivered by the Kundalini yoga guru, Yogi Bhagan, via pre-recorded video as well as the works of philosophers Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, my work addresses themes of healing, spirituality, biopower and sovereign power relations. My piece has elements of middle-ages torture which still exist in un-democratic countries and the more subtle modern punishments and forms of discipline commonly witnessed in institutions like army, school etc.. My works displays the contrast of sense of joy and ecstasy mingled with pain; humor with bitterness and darkness; impacts of an overpowering a guru/dictator; acts of controlling another person along with the effects of being controlled by another; power with vulnerability and selfhood with selfless.