hylozoic/desires’ Setting the Stage for a Gathering of Friends, which was made in the heart of the pandemic of 2020, in Delhi, is a home video performance about uncertainty, fear, chance, missed connections, false promises. The work is a return to something we once felt and a repetition of something we had never experienced. It charts the path of an Ensō (a special circle form in Zen Buddhism), a depiction of a ‘whole’ or a ‘void’, a different cosmology, depending on the way you look at it, up-close or at a distance. The circle in the video holds together the improvised elements of free jazz and the disparate footnotes found in fortune cookies opened at random. It sets the stage for a gathering of friends and proposes that waiting can be a form of love.

setting the stage was shown globally as part of artist film international 2021/2022, nominated by Project88, Mumbai.

Setting the Stage For a Gathering of Friends, 2020, Video, Colour, Stereo Sound, 10:35 mins.