Kiosk of Someone Else's Dreams > Project Description

A "kiosk" with a touch-screen and video screen, connected to several neighbourhood audio and data streams, was set up for four days at the Bandra promenade. Multiple types of connections, as well as refusals to connect, took place over the period. The kiosk offered browsing through the video material, as well as live links to several locations. Relationships between live and recorded material, and the various contexts of people and their "neighbourliness", were brought into play.

The principal types of links were:

1. About 80 short video clips were produced, at 9 or 10 different locations. These were viewable at the kiosk, by navigating through a set of pictures in a browser, a bit like on a website.
2. Electrical connections were made between the kiosk and these locations, so as you watched the video you would also "light up" the house, street corner, etc. where the video was recorded, or other locations visible from there. This was a parody or extreme case of "mapping".
3. Live audio was being mixed and broadcast on micro-fm, received on radios on the ground and in the flats. In this way the multiple locations could all hear the discussion at the kiosk.

At the same time many non-technical and residual effects were in operation, and various things happened across the space of the promenade. A more descriptive narrative and video is coming shortly, meanwhile browse through the images by clicking on the images tab above.

Thanks to:
Vickram Crishna, Ravi Jagtiani, Sheikh Mohammed Shareef, Subhash, Ridhi D'cruz, Abhishikta Banerjee, Benson Almeida and Richard Fernandes and Celebrate Bandra.

Special thanks to:
Lal Bahadur Mastana, Rao family at Kalpak Hites, Lalu Yadav, Sarju Yadav, Savio, Ali Tiwari, Feroze Khan, Mukesh Rais, Ram Parvesh guards, Mr and Mrs Beg at Kismet, Raheja family at Sunflower, Mrs Bajaj at Jackers, Roshan Dabhoiwalla, Dosu Setna, Vidya Vaidya.