Srinivas Harivanam (b.1992) works between New Delhi & Bangalore. He emphasizes 'frictional awareness" in his thinking.
His identification with the ‘ಸುಳಿದಾಡುವಿಕೆ’ [suḷidāduvike] enclaves the sense of ‘ecology of friction’ within the context of history, mediation, and knowing. His techniques involve sculptural hovering, temporal swing, and tweaking via installations, moving images, and text. He inherits the potential of swing in a ‘Boomerang’ sense—embedding recursion as a modality to make friction collapse, resonate, or spin forth with[out] directionality.
ಸುಳಿದಾಡುವಿಕೆ [suḷidāduvike] - a state of becoming non-stagnant, a deviation, and an image with flight. [ non-coherent ]
suḷi + āḍu - suḷidāduvike
Suli from proto-dravidian root: cuṭ- or suṭ –, the nearest meaning "to turn, hover, twist, whirl, ominous curve, wind".
āḍu- is to play or move
Suli from proto-dravidian root: cuṭ- or suṭ –, the nearest meaning "to turn, hover, twist, whirl, ominous curve, wind".
āḍu- is to play or move
inside the studio
Friction -
This involves substituting different logics of knowing, making relations, and placing models within normative and meta structures, as well as in places of emptiness, in the drift to attune to the unheard and uncommunicable.