Samples of the Ghats is an Interactive Documentary Installation that invites its audience to re-create the ghats of Haridwar, India. Visitors re-compose its atmosphere by triggering locally collected audio and visual samples. The work aims at exploring new forms of narrative.
Description
A 5 metres long structure framed with technology features a panorama of an ancient indian city. Intriguing, it acts like a magnet, an appeal to curiosity and exploration.
Cruising along the panel the visitor soon discover that he can play it. With the simple move of his hands he launches media sequences. They are audio and visual samples, pieces of Haridwar in India, collected and edited in a way to generate an atmospheric feel of the ghats.
In a collective experience, the panorama comes to life and the adventure can begin.
Team
The project was conceived by Philippe Chollet and developed with Gauthaman Ravindran and Evi Cmarova with contributions from André Chollet.
Also thanks to Rui Cepeda, Yvette Chollet, Sema Demir, Alex Garacotche, Ros Hanmer, Stephane Juguet, Chris Lane, Dimitra Markogiannaki, Martin Messias, Elena Moschini, David Mulugeta, Pat Power, Michaela Reiser, Angelo Santucci and Ian Waller.
Exhibitions
The installation was exhibited at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie. It was also was exhibited within the Mindplay Conference and integrated to the Rhizome Artbase.
