Marginalia

Sonic Essay (21mins), Video Projection

Marginalia proposes listening as a politics of refusal of the totalizing logics of state and empire, opening space for an affective rearticulation of the ancestral, ecological and spectral where the historiographic subject itself is liminal and cannot be fully understood through dominant discourses. While the Mekong is its locus, this work is not of a people, but of an idea: the entangled poetics of lines and liminalities and how concepts of belonging relate to and exceed territories. This is the third iteration of Belliappa-Kumār’s work entitled Department of Para Pedagogic Practices, an eight-part series, critically engaged in contemporary alterities in the South/East Asian region.

Belliappa-Kumār are a visual artist duo whose practice interrogates the shared genealogies and speculative futures of the planetary turn. Centred around the question of what comes after postcolonial thought? – they are interested in material cartographies, its deeper pasts and contemporary encounters with multispecies technologies and Artificial Intelligence.

The first iteration of Department of Para Pedagogic Practices, titled Peça da India, was presented at Shedhalle during ProtoZone12: Syncretic Sites. Earlier, Kiraṇ Kumār had presented his solo work Six Uneasy Fragments (Exactly) on the Natural and Spiritual as part of ProtoZone7: Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbor.