Srinivas Harivanam (b.1992) works between New Delhi & Bangalore. They investigate sites of friction, sedimentation, and life, listening from a world shaped by [geo] caste infrastructures.
Their gestures become mere finite scratches contrasting the immeasurable excess. Often opening up, sculptures and images take on Undeclared forms, tainting landscapes and manufactured apparatuses. Their works become sites for the redistribution of temporalities sedimented within caste abstractions, and where play begins.
Currently, they identify with the ‘ಸುಳಿದಾಡುವಿಕೆ’ [suḷidāduvike]—loosely translated as "a way of loitering”—that stages encounters through which weak epistemic structures emerge. They name their techniques for arriving at such structures as sculptural hovering, temporal swing, and tweaking. 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