BEING-WITH JEAN-LUC NANCY AND MOVING IMAGES FROM INDIA AT DEUTSCHE GUGGENHEIM
BEING-WITH JEAN-LUC NANCY AND MOVING IMAGES FROM INDIA AT DEUTSCHE GUGGENHEIM

Summary/Abstract: Two texts by French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and works of film and digital video art by six artists living and working in India articulated the exhibition at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, from June 26 to October 10, 2010. Vibrantly entitled Being Singular Plural. Moving Images from India, the show allowed mapping the territory for several dialogues intensely present in the contemporary artistic practices: between theoretical works adapted to frame and nurture curatorial gestures, with emphasis on the seduction that the former seem to systematically exercise upon the latter; between digital video and film practices as evolving within the visual arts scene and the documentary productions developed in the field of cinema; between the poetics of the former – film and digital video art meant as vectors of social activism or criticism – and the phenomenological themes inscribed in the latter – documentary film historically conceived as intervention within the real.

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