Bringing a Poem to a Gunfight

Abstract

The contribution has been reworked and re-versioned from the video work, Bringing a Poem to a Gunfight (2021).

Bringing a Poem to a Gunfight looks at armours and bodies and puts forth the two parallel inquiries within the discourse on movement, visibility, control and identity. It inquires if public safety automatically equals nation building by the way of militarization.

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Shubhangi Singh’s practice ranges from moving image, text, lecture-performances and installations. Her work often draws upon existing knowledges to address movement, identity and queries related to the body and its relationship with its environment.

Singh considers ideas of absence and absenting in her work as a way of reflecting upon what is visible, particularly in relation to memory, the labour of memorialising and history.