Anant Joshi b. 1969
Happy New Year, 2013
Fiberglass box, mirror, steel, resin, acrylic and industrial paint, kite paper, led lights and readymade objects etc
12 boxes with 12 sculptures on top of them
Each box of size 19 inches x 15 inches x 18 inches
Each box of size 19 inches x 15 inches x 18 inches
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Happy New Year, 2013 Anant Joshi, decides to traverse time via the television, and serialises a year-long calendar of emblematic moments, real-life stories, and media events. Dystopia and surveillance, watching and being watched – this is...
Happy New Year, 2013
Anant Joshi, decides to traverse time via the television, and serialises a year-long calendar of emblematic moments, real-life stories, and media events. Dystopia and surveillance, watching and being watched – this is compacted into 12 dioramas with everyday travesties performed in the style of pantomime theatrics.
Each of these dioramas look at January to December 2013 - not only was it a dramatic year as build up to the most decisive elections to be fought in 2014, but also the fact that events came and went - catching the limelight until that time and then at most times disappearing from public memory until the "next big thing".
Anant Joshi became somewhat of a "couch potato" - cutting newspaper stories, switching channels on the television and in some way becoming a chronicler of these events that zipped by us through the year. Much like looking into an idiot box - laden with unfolding events, the dioramas with their hybrid antennas on the top, and a rear-view mirror at the bottom - which metaphorically looks back at that year gone by.
The events become a trigger from day to day, month to month and translated into this staged narrative. If the act of looking into the world is considered voyeuristic, there is also a poignant reminder we are being looked back at, watched.
This experience resulted in a year long project.
Anant Joshi, decides to traverse time via the television, and serialises a year-long calendar of emblematic moments, real-life stories, and media events. Dystopia and surveillance, watching and being watched – this is compacted into 12 dioramas with everyday travesties performed in the style of pantomime theatrics.
Each of these dioramas look at January to December 2013 - not only was it a dramatic year as build up to the most decisive elections to be fought in 2014, but also the fact that events came and went - catching the limelight until that time and then at most times disappearing from public memory until the "next big thing".
Anant Joshi became somewhat of a "couch potato" - cutting newspaper stories, switching channels on the television and in some way becoming a chronicler of these events that zipped by us through the year. Much like looking into an idiot box - laden with unfolding events, the dioramas with their hybrid antennas on the top, and a rear-view mirror at the bottom - which metaphorically looks back at that year gone by.
The events become a trigger from day to day, month to month and translated into this staged narrative. If the act of looking into the world is considered voyeuristic, there is also a poignant reminder we are being looked back at, watched.
This experience resulted in a year long project.