Dance Monument Dance, 2020

Sampling from, and oscillating between Indian and American culture, the artist traverses through mass media, popular culture, current affairs, mythology, festivals, social movements, dreams, and autobiographical voice. Histories and political climates intersect. Poetic prose weaves through images extracted from the public domain. Pages begin to perform. An attempt is made to advance a lyrical argument for the ‘James Brown Recast Ritual’ proposal.

‘Dance Monument Dance’ can be read in Conjuncture, a publication presented by the 2019-2020 Whitney ISP studio participants. Interactive pdf available at librarystack.org/conjuncture/

2019 © Vikram Divecha