chapter 1 - Milton B. and Pramukha Rupan, we - two individuals are trying to start our negotiation from the point of acceptance in terms of 'collective restriction' within the discourse of language and collective individual. We have some idea where we will push each other creative boundaries - and intervene with plural understanding. We will see various cultural tangents and observe multiple polarized points where the point of view will play the principal factor. We would like to it is as exercise* - But very significantly, we will not try to attempt to reach any final concrete ending point.
Perspective: Milton would like to observe ‘ The “urge of doing” as a tendency of making - the new mentality of making urban symbolic form. so what if there is void in-between my primary understanding and outcome - can we expose the gap!! The method of viewing (excluding sleeping cycle) from the amateur eyesight is always played the dilemma regarding the need for addressing especially in the context of utilization and acceptance.
footnote - (The idea of the 'need' to the surplus of needs; thus appears an agreement in between.) |
Perspective: Pramukho ‘ As a multidisciplinary art practitioner, ( Majorly interested to explore life from sonic and music production)- I felt during the preparation this residency that we completely overlook the term negotiation as an everyday habit*- it is/was/will be there as an infinite loop.
* habit has a figurative structured life where certain memory does exist there with some cause and condition - they are like an internal component. footnote: .... when the word 'Neighbourhood' came to me as cultural terms, I was thinking that my journey is very close to the interest of observation reproductions and it is more or less translucent and wide in terms of acceptance. |
Observation Day | research field-note - Milton B.
Our mundane observation started from my residential studio (in Baksara), and then we initiated the further dialogue in conversation with the following the root - Sukanta place to Thakurpukur Math towards Baksara Bajar - National place – Baroj Math and finishing the Baksara part towards Batore area. where we are-
*..... still the overflow can be seen with high tension electric line is visible overhead. Narrow lanes and uneven surfaces, although the unevenness is an obvious quality all around Howrah.
After Batore we were moving towards Kalibabur Bajar, but a sudden decision leads us to Kadamtala road. We are at the center of Howrah or Madhya Howrah. Tarasundari Girls’ School and obvious surrounds of damaged and odd structured buildings. We found some locations are spectacular and boring at the same time. The Howrah maidan towards Shibpur - is a site where we found melancholic visuals, and following that memory we decided to end up today's outdoor somewhere close to Baksara. p.s- The method of image** documentation has already generating tremendous energy and fuelling the urge of doing in my town, still, Baksara holds a superior quality diversity and engaging spaces. I hope to find a positive experience from a custom made observation tool. |
Observation Day | research field-note - Pramukho R.
যা দেখতে পাই, তা কখুনো আগে অনুভব করি নি। শব্দ ও সময় নিজের পরিচিত জায়গা গুলিকে অন্য ভাবে সামনে নিয়ে আসছে।এই পর্যবেক্ষণ পর্বে যে পথে আমরা গেলাম তা মূলত বাকসারা - বেতর - রামরাজাতলা - ঘোষপাড়া - কদমতলা - হাওড়া ময়দান - রামকৃষ্ণপুর ঘাট - শিবপুর। একটি বিষয় যা আমার কাছে খুবই গুরুত্বপূর্ণ,চেনা অঞ্চল গুলি কখনই পূর্ণ অনুভব করা সম্ভব নয়,যদি না উপস্থিত উপাদান গুলোকে চিনতে পারি। কর্মপ্রণালি হিসাবে এই উপস্থিত উপাদান গুলোকেই অনুভব করা এবং সঞ্চয় করার চেষ্টা থাকবে আগামী তিন দিন। যে পরিসর ( অঞ্চলভিত্তিক ) জুড়ে আমরা কাজটি করব বলে ঠিক করেছি , সেখানে উপাদান গত তারতম্য ও অনুভব করি।এখানে উপাদান বলতে মূলত উপস্থিত স্মৃতি এবং তার ক্রমবর্ধমান পরিবর্তন উল্লেখযোগ্য।শব্দর দিক থেকে এই পরিবর্তন কে তুলে ধরা একটি অন্যতম দিক হিসাবে আমি দেখছি। অন্যদিকে সভ্যতার সংকট এই প্রবন্ধটি এবং পূর্ব পরিচিত স্মৃতিকে মধ্যবর্তী মিথষ্ক্রিয়া হিসাবে দেখছি। Never before have I seen what I see. Sound + time as a collective unit creating a new paradigm for me in terms of creating an uneven understanding - as if they are so familiar but unfamiliar in a new ways. The path we went through in the day 1 observation period was mainly Bakksara - Betar - Ramrajatla - Ghoshpara - Kadamtala - Howrah Maidan - Ramakrishnapur Ghat - Shibpur. One of the things that are very important for me is understanding a space from its mundane elementary experience. I think that it is not possible (to respond to known regions )unless I recognize the present tense with its present elements. Trying to feel and collect these ingredients as one of primary strategies in terms of a method - will see how it grows in the next three days. footnote-(In the range (region-wise) throughout which we have decided to do the work, there is a difference in the past and feel of the material. There is a significant amount of memory present in the material and its gradual change is also significant.) post-travel I felt my monologue will incomplete without revisiting the article - ’crisis of civilization’ by Rabindranath Tagore; I see this text has a post-life effect especially in the context of memory or if we can see it as an unrecognize tool for future interaction. can we listen the memory : https://soundcloud.com/pramukho-rupan/persistence-of-memory |
in the mode of tracing the city | some glimpses from milton's research
Tracing ideas & Methods : We see ourselves as a point A & point B. Each day we will interact and reach another new departure point, we named it as point C. The next day we will follow the same method and it will cont, until we will reach up to point I.
Methods of practitioner 1 :
a) A random site oriented dialogue-based study to document the impressions. b) Locating texts and literary documents to understand the gap position as a parallel study. c) Generate the urge of doing on the documented materials. d) Share the variable materials to run these actions in a loop. e) Plan the loop of actions {a - i}. |
Methods of practitioner 2 :
a) Continues interaction and observation with space and with the process. b) Record and intervene soundscape of the site. c) Share the variable materials to run these actions in a loop. d) Rerecord and design the soundscape with a more intimate way upon a translucent memory. e) Plan the loop of actions {a - i}. |
[From the Process]
Field Report
Milton B.
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Pramukho R.
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Some Glimpses from the Open Day
Last 96 hours recap: In terms of our curatorial interest- we engaged with non-eventual dialogue along with the city's subcultural working spirit - we walked, cycled, stopped and rewalked again; like an intertwined loop - our journey was as important as our collection of narrative, in the process of this observation, we're able to grab the nerve of our own city's cultural departure(it is like re-read the combination of space-time and rapture in context of understanding the interest regarding the neo-society cultural existence).
what we experienced, like this -
1. How do you negotiate, or come to terms with, the freedom of rapture?
2. Are we slowly moving towards unconditional polarization in terms of understanding the neighborhood?
3. "Negotiating " isn't part of our everyday decision making no matter creative or random, let's rework on the culture of rapture," and see the possibilities of making friendship!
4. Image is not always true as it is - until we trust the time of the post-truth cycle where the image is a reflection of parallel 'fact'.
5.sound does not reflect as experience always until we admit the history of amnesia as an internal part of
experiential sonic feelings.
what we experienced, like this -
1. How do you negotiate, or come to terms with, the freedom of rapture?
2. Are we slowly moving towards unconditional polarization in terms of understanding the neighborhood?
3. "Negotiating " isn't part of our everyday decision making no matter creative or random, let's rework on the culture of rapture," and see the possibilities of making friendship!
4. Image is not always true as it is - until we trust the time of the post-truth cycle where the image is a reflection of parallel 'fact'.
5.sound does not reflect as experience always until we admit the history of amnesia as an internal part of
experiential sonic feelings.
negotiating_neighborhood_-_print.pdf |