Sound, light and audio-visual projections around the Dara Shikoh Library and an imagination of its multiple histories

 

These fragments of texts, images, sounds and readings have been composed, gathered, excavated, reconstituted and layered.

The Library is vast and absent, its original inhabitant beheaded for apostasy, and forgotten.

The Library, once a repository of knowledge and its proclaimed truths, now stands as a monument to its abandonment.

Silent, all its histories and worlds given over to time.

 

(Collaboration with Ambedkar University Delhi, Centre For Community Knowledge, 2015)