ARTICULATED VIOLENCE AND THE ECONOMY OF THE UNSPOKEN

Th e ascending stairs have the alphabets
conjoined by the liquid in the test tube and
further one has a panorama of what a ‘lived
reality’ can never be the synonym of what
an anticipated ‘ live moment’ would be- this
is the message of Amit Mukhopadhyay’s
curated show Violence: Double Spread-
From Private to the Public in the ‘ Life World’
which the gallery at the School of Arts and
Aeshthetics of J N U has to provide. Th e
schisms and deviations apart, the terminology
‘ Life World’ is the most interesting aspect of
this exhibition as it has a series of thwarting
and discontinuous elements of what the
nature of violence can be when it is imposed/
structured and given to such a world. At the
same time, as the curator has mentioned in
his notes, this ‘ life world’ has its elements very
much lurking in the public space; an area he
had been juggling with ever since his major
curated exhibition thirteen years ago in Delhi.
Th e welcoming space of the palpable notions
of time and the eff ervescent idea of living
depicted by Anuradha Pathak is an example
of the same. If she had given a title to her
installation as Time= Emit, there is more to
it as we get into this space of vertiginous art
works as they take us back and forth time;
sometime arresting all our thoughts and at
other times making us more locale bound to
understand what is violence.