Chandini
Body of research co-authored with artist filmmaker Daniel Saul, consisting of the Channel 4 short film ‘Ek Choti si Asha – A Small Dream’ (2017), and three-part performance and video work ‘A Small Dream’ (2019) for Dorset Moon Festival.
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-25-2082
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- Location
- Bournemouth, Sherborne and Weymouth as part of Dorset Moon Festival, U.K.
- Brief description of type
- Body of research co-authored with artist filmmaker Daniel Saul, consisting of the Channel 4 short film Ek Choti si Asha -A Small Dream(2017), and three-part performance and video work A Small Dream(2019) for Dorset Moon Festival.
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- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Additional information
- Chandini (2017-2019) is a body of research co-authored by artist filmmakers Rachel Davies and Daniel Saul, in collaboration with Indian dancer and choreographer Hemabharathy Palani. It consists of: the Channel 4 short film Ek Choti si Asha -A Small Dream (2017) in which Palani journeys across Bangalore as a tribute to India’s sending a robot to the moon; and A Small Dream (2019), a three-part performance and video work commissioned for the Dorset Moon Festival to commemorate the Apollo 11 moon landing’s 50th anniversary. Occurring over three consecutive weekends for a c.10,000 audience, A Small Dream consists of three performances by Palani across three Dorset locations. It consists of: Launch, in which Palani walks between Bournemouth beach and St. Peter’s Church; Journey, in which Palani’s journeys in Bournemouth and Bangalore are projection mapped inside Sherborne Abbey; and Arrival, in which Palani arrives beneath a full moon at Nothe Fort, Weymouth. Davies and Saul documented the performances through three eponymous films. The research explores India’s plans to become the fourth nation to land on the moon, in the process raising questions around nationhood, technological progress and tradition, the latter tension explored through a choreographic parallel between an Indian woman’s journey on earth and an Indian ‘female’ robot’s lunar journey. Through its multi-faceted dissemination it also investigates the shifting relationships between film, live art and performance spectacles. Davies and Saul disseminated the research further in “Chandini” in Earnshaw et al (eds) Technology, Design and the Arts (Springer, 2020). Supported by residencies at Rambert and 101 Creative Space, research included: a literature and film review; location and institution visits; filming, editing and choreography experimentation; drawing; and interviews and collaboration between artists, scientists and cultural institutions in Britain and India. The researchers developed a particular partnership with Palani, who oversaw her own choreography.
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