Nisha Duggal, Institute, 2009
Nisha Duggal
Nisha Duggal joined D6 throughout July 2009 as part of our research residency programme.
Nisha spent her residency period exploring the omnipresent but often redundant nature of technology. Using real-time manipulation software - 'Isadora' for digital video to merge audiovisual material with live performance. Everyday events were recorded and examined, every mannerism observed, repeated and dissected to the point of obsession.
Duggal creates work around the mechanics of identity, sampling imagery from contemporary culture to engineer video works that engage the viewer through their complex manipulation of everyday situations.
“Picnolepsy” is a term coined by writer Paul Virilio to illustrate how contemporary humans ‘dumb down’ their experiences of living in a world with excess information as a way of preserving our fragile egos. As if your experience must pixilate into smaller, more manageable fragments - a coping strategy for living in our society of speed. Similarly, Nisha tries to make sense of the jumbled landscape, making the complicated simple.
Whilst at D6, Duggal developed and shot 'Colours' an exploration of individuality and preference. Through filmed interviews Duggal presented a ‘relational portrait’ of her collaborators. Each person’s responses were carefully orchestrated and manipulated into a schema that dwells on what makes each of us different, our likes and dislikes and the evolution of our cultural standards.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nisha Duggal is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring expressions of freedom and creativity in the everyday. She’s interested in the transformative qualities of making and doing, in engineering situations that explore deep-seated primitive impulses to make, play and create.
Nisha’s films and drawings have exhibited internationally including installations at Watermans (London), Arnolfini (Bristol), Ginza Art Lab (Tokyo), Baltic (Gateshead) and Oriel Mostyn (Llandudno) with screenings at Videobabel (Cusco, Peru), European Media Art Festival (Osnabrueck, Germany), Rekalde (Bilbao, Spain), Cornerhouse (Manchester) and Iniva (London). She been awarded commissions by Site Gallery (Sheffield) and Contemporary Art Forum (Kitchener, Ontario) and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Moving Image Awards in 2008 and the Jerwood/Umbrella Moving Image Awards in 2013. In 2018 Nisha was the first Artist-in-Residence for Walthamstow Wetlands and lead artist for Supersmashers at South London Gallery. In 2019 she took part in ArtNight London.
Nisha spent her residency period exploring the omnipresent but often redundant nature of technology. Using real-time manipulation software - 'Isadora' for digital video to merge audiovisual material with live performance. Everyday events were recorded and examined, every mannerism observed, repeated and dissected to the point of obsession.
Duggal creates work around the mechanics of identity, sampling imagery from contemporary culture to engineer video works that engage the viewer through their complex manipulation of everyday situations.
“Picnolepsy” is a term coined by writer Paul Virilio to illustrate how contemporary humans ‘dumb down’ their experiences of living in a world with excess information as a way of preserving our fragile egos. As if your experience must pixilate into smaller, more manageable fragments - a coping strategy for living in our society of speed. Similarly, Nisha tries to make sense of the jumbled landscape, making the complicated simple.
Whilst at D6, Duggal developed and shot 'Colours' an exploration of individuality and preference. Through filmed interviews Duggal presented a ‘relational portrait’ of her collaborators. Each person’s responses were carefully orchestrated and manipulated into a schema that dwells on what makes each of us different, our likes and dislikes and the evolution of our cultural standards.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nisha Duggal is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring expressions of freedom and creativity in the everyday. She’s interested in the transformative qualities of making and doing, in engineering situations that explore deep-seated primitive impulses to make, play and create.
Nisha’s films and drawings have exhibited internationally including installations at Watermans (London), Arnolfini (Bristol), Ginza Art Lab (Tokyo), Baltic (Gateshead) and Oriel Mostyn (Llandudno) with screenings at Videobabel (Cusco, Peru), European Media Art Festival (Osnabrueck, Germany), Rekalde (Bilbao, Spain), Cornerhouse (Manchester) and Iniva (London). She been awarded commissions by Site Gallery (Sheffield) and Contemporary Art Forum (Kitchener, Ontario) and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Moving Image Awards in 2008 and the Jerwood/Umbrella Moving Image Awards in 2013. In 2018 Nisha was the first Artist-in-Residence for Walthamstow Wetlands and lead artist for Supersmashers at South London Gallery. In 2019 she took part in ArtNight London.