after joy

sculpture in public space / two channel video installation
Muziris Biennale 2018 / bangaloREsidency at Pepper House, Kochin, India

After Joy follows the traces of four cargo ships: Vishwa Umang, Vishwa Tarang, Vishwa Asha and Vishwa Abha – Universal Joy, Wave, Hope and Grace – that were built at the shipyard in artist’s hometown in Kherson, on the Ukrainian Crimea border, as a part of the Indo-Soviet Partnership in 1973 and 1974.

Combining a two-channel audio-visual installation and the sculpture made of scraped propellers at the St. Paul School Junction in Kochi, After Joy is developed through a series of radio interventions in the specificity of both sites – Kherson, Ukraine and Kochi, India and draws on the correlations between Ukrainian Cosmism, colonialism and annexation of Crimea in 2014.

After Joy is the first chapter of the artistic research project conducted in the remains of the once-largest shipyard of the Soviet Union, connecting it with the rest of the world.

The work is produced during the bagaloREsidency@Pepper House 2018.
A project of Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore with the support of Kochi Biennale Foundation

Sculpture Photo: Kiran Keshav and Swanoop John

Further Links:
Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Goethe Institute Bangalore
Artist in Residency Biennale Foudnation Trailer

Press:
Indian Express
The Times of India