Denial. Desire. Deprivation

Ravi Agarwal

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A Feast of Sorts

The ‘meal’ is an investigation of food along with three very different “practitioners.” They offer tastes of fasting, suffering, health, politics, social control, cognition, and language.

(4 videos, headphones, table, stools – dimensions variable)

Cognition

Prof. Rukmini Bhaya, Nair

(38 mins. approx.. video HD)

Prof. Nair is a linguist, a poet and an author. Delving into the complex and intertwined world of cognition, language, the development of senses, taste, identity, culture, social power etc., she unravels the complex ways in which food is inseparable from our selves.

Abstinence

Sikander Ali Baba,

(25 mins. approx. video HD)

Sikander Ali is a Sufi baba, roaming the countryside, immersed in a meditative practice dedicated to God. He speaks of the relationship of food as a form of fasting, denial, suffering in the quest for a higher self.

Immersion

Mona Gandhi

(28 mins.