Curator :  Shristi Sainani
Host : Delhi Art Week 

Date : 1st December 2023 - 10th December 2023

Artist : Paris Viswanathan, Tahsin Akhtar, Thasil Suhara Backer, Rat Bedlington, Lakshya Bhargava, Abraham George, Nabanita Guha, Joyce Ho, Kapil Jangid, Khandakar Ohida, Abin Sreedharan K P, Jyothidas K V, Ruth Ju-Shih Li, Astha Patel. 

                 
                 
Permanent Conference: 

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Place operations of apparatus outside the range of genuine familiarity, and we have intersections between the temperament of anatomies.

The exhibition ‘Permanent Conference’ explores overlaps, interactions, and conjunctions between anatomiesof man, machine, and nature. The classifications, as ingrained, show malleability in entities.

Nuclei are likened to a motherboard, the heart as an engine, casing much like the cellular membrane, with
language traveling as a script through systemically wired veins, carrying messages to a consciousness. The
conscious having established knowledge showcases situations of reflexive reciprocation.

A body, a sight, a trigger, a target. A weapon’s muzzle, an opening to let out a spearing utterance, much like
the mouth of man or the Rosette Pitcher — a scream.

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Suggesting acoustics, science journalist Bernard Dixon, arranges a synchrony between anatomy and music-making machines to say, “Stretch a skin over a wooden frame and you have a drum. Punch some finger holes in a reed or cane and you have a simple fife. Fix some pieces of gut between pegs on a board and you have an elementary guitar.” Interaction tends to amalgamation

The exhibition is treated as an analytical framework, grounds of examination, to understand how identities
instilled in typologies (of man, machine, and nature) carry similarities while also exuding personal means of
varying discriminations and/or privileges. There is a precarity in definition when distanced from implanted
memory. ‘Permanent Conference’ aims to interrogate these uncertainties which occasionally come with
glitches — glitches in systems, be that fluctuating errors of automation or recurring corporeal anxieties.

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Curated by Shristi  Sainani

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