Surabhi Saraf performed in New Delhi on 30th January 2013.
"On this evening Surabhi performed two tracks from the album. Both pieces were conceived as live performances involving live video, choreographed lights and performers. The performances will take the audience on a journey of synaesthetic experiences, showing how our perception of the self is constructed through our senses. The artists's vision for the evening is to accentuate each sense, addressing their value individually and in blended concert.
The evening progresses from 'Spinning Four', a visually rich immersive sonic experience that stimulates external senses, to 'Illuminen', which focuses inward, negotiating ideas of entertainment, experience, sensation and sensationalism with the conviction that it is actually the numbing of certain sensory realities that generates crucial moments in socio-cultural transformation."
Source - Surabhisaraf.net
"Inspired by the ways we perceive temporal phenomena through movement, both visually and sonically, Surabhi Saraf uses her background in experimental sound, Indian classical music and choreography to create audio and video works. With a diverse array of techniques such as repetition, fragmentation, and multiplication, Surabhi designs sequences of rhythmic movements, creating multilayered structures of evolving patterns that slow down our perception of time.
Her project FOLD {Live}, is a series of public performances, in which the "everyday" action of folding laundry is abstracted and transformed into a slow movement meditation. In her recent audio-visual performances Surabhi layers the sound of her voice over the droning percussions of aged fans that are augmented by lights and live video, creating an immersive soundscape.
She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009 with an MFA in Art and Technology. Prior to that, she obtained her BFA in Painting from MSU Baroda (India) in 2005. Surabhi is the winner of Art vs Design (2009) organized by Artists Wanted, New York. Her work PEEL is the Winner of Celeste Prize (2009), Italy. Her video FOLDed was announced the winner in the Experimental Film category at the 2011 Disposable Film Festival. Surabhi's collaborative work with Nadav Assor, was presented at the NETMAGE 10 International Live Media Festival, Bologna, Italy. Her videos have been shown at the Hunter Museum of American Art Chattanooga, TN and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Vojvodina, Serbia. Her solo and collaborative works have been presented at the Links Hall, Sullivan Galleries in Chicago and the Lab & SOMArts Gallery in San francisco and Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi among others. Surabhi is the recipient of the International Graduate Student Scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also received the Djerassi Resident Artist Award for a month long residency in Woodside, CA. Her recent videos have been screened at multiple international video art festival in Spain, Netherlands, South Korea, Israel, Greece, Australia and Italy. Surabhi currently lives and works in San Francisco."
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