01 Feb The Missing Limb

A site-responsive performance by Nisha Rachel at the 8th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Dubolhati Palace, Naogaon, Rajshahi, Bd

The idea of a space could be political because it can be controlled. It can be controlled by someone within the space and someone outside it.While the one within it tries to nurture it for their own comfort the one outside does the same. The only difference is the one inside possesses it by nurturing while the one outside possesses it through destruction in the name of construction.
While thinking of the person residing inside a space, nurturing it and growing it, one begins to possess this space almost like an extension of ones body. Cutting this body apart is synonymous to a missing limb.
A Missing history that was once part of a body. The reason we need to remember history, this history and culture around a space is to connect. 

To connect, we need to converse. To converse we need to understand language. This erasure of language through app translators on phones is what is political. Space then becomes political. It is this space that builds relationships through language. And today, an absence of people within this space and those lost conversations over the years cannot be recreated. But, you could find a trace. By inviting people who lived around this space to come within and have conversations.

Bring in an external element such as an translator app in the mobile, Artist tried to create an exchange of dialogues. While that happens, the foreign element such as the app is that external element that constructs through destruction.

Nisha Rachel Philip is Visual Artist based in India. She comes from an academic background of Painting and Art History. Her practice involves working with various mediums and is experimental in nature.