Sujit Mallik

Sujit Mallik is an Indian multimedia artist, who examines communicative techniques at the intersection of performance and participation in art. In 2017 he founded the ecological collective Saagwala, located in Delhi, with Pawan Dubey and Neeraj Pandey.

This project is the continuation of a dialogue with the post human earth, which he started in 2012. Material and performative reactions to the ground, as well as the complex social and political mechanisms of modern urban live.

2005 he finished his Bachelor of Fine Arts in print graphics at the B.K College of Arts & Crafts in Odisha. His artworks and performances deal with themes such as the loss of horizons, waste generation, infections, citizenship, social structures and ecology.

Saturday, June 17th 2023

12 pm: Soup performance
artist talk with Sujit Mallik, Rudolf Seebacher and Elisabeth Fiedler (Institute of Art in Public Space Styria)

Free transportation by bus from Graz. Departure: 9:30 am, main trains station Graz, 8020 Graz

Loss of Horizon and Converging Acts - Podcast is a digital confluence of five geo-spatially separated holes and artists who are engaged in a seemingly indistinguishable act of digging.

While engaged in the act of digging a hole, the participants are provoked to observe, inspect, discover, interact and imitate non-humans and the earth in their respective locations.

The podcast curated from conversations and sounds captured from the locations of the five holes over a period of 6 days speculates a new becoming - to experience collective sensorial desires other than the human.

The podcast will developed by Anish Cherian, Padmanabhan/Beatnyk and Sujit Mallik

 as part of LOHACA 2.0 a series of interconnected events/artworks by Sujit Mallik within the framework of OPEN FIELDS - Art and Agriculture.

Component 1:

3 days of digging a hole that the participant can occupy during the duration. This can be any kind of physical hollowed out space in the ground or any other space created within a clutter.
Conversations and sounds captured during respective days will be released as a podcast episode.

Tentative themes of the podcast:
Day 1/Episode 1: Introduction to the artists and their geographies, followed by discussions on the planetary becoming and posthuman transformations
Day 2/Episode 2: The act of digging and reflections on their occupation of the hole
Day 3/Episode 3: How to become other than human

Component 2:
A speculative AV story of the five holes and its occupation by the artists

ABOUT THE ACTIVITY
Participants will dig a hole with their hands or any tools of their choice.
Participants will be given provocations to observe, inspect, discover, interact and imitate non-humans and the earth in their respective locations.
Participants will be required to occupy the hole and engage with other participants through video calls.

TO PARTICIPATE
Please fill out the google form (expired)

1.  Short note/voice recording on how your art practice talks about human & non-human relations (100-200 words). save file as “yourname_note1.file type”
2.  Short note/voice recording describing the ecological landscape and the non-human animals around your current location (100-200 words). save file as “yourname_note2.m4a”
3.  02:00 min sound recording of the ground/soil in your current location. save file as “yourname_ground.m4a”
4.  05:00 min sound recording of environmental sounds i.e. of birds, wind, and rustling leaves etc. save file as “yourname_surround.m4a”

Note: Kindly make all recordings in Dolby Mobile Application.

ABOUT THE PODCAST
Objective of the podcast is to speculate a new becoming - to experience collective sensorial desires other than the human.
The podcast will be curated from conversations and sounds captured from the locations of the five holes over a period of 3 days
Selected participants will be reimbursed with a small production grant after finishing the project.