Sine Language
Exhibition Preview: Sine Language is running at Greater Manchester’s Gallery Oldham until February 7 2009.
Gallery Oldham is showing Sine Language, a new installation by visual artist Hetain Patel and urban musician and beat boxer Jason Singh.
Developed from a collaborative partnership between Patel and Singh, Sine Language examines how cultural dialogue can emerge from the complex rhythms of drumming, physical movement and the environmental noise of a gallery space.
Hetain Patel won a Decibel award in 2005, which aims to raise the profile of artists from African, Asian or Caribbean backgrounds.
Jason Singh is an internationally celebrated beatboxer, DJ, percussionist, composer and workshop facilitator.
Sine Language
The project marks a new point in Patel’s on-going investigation into what he describes as “learning to be Indian”, which has manifested itself through a number of previous photographic, video and live performance pieces.
As well as exploring his heritage and the themes of dislocation and cultural identity, his work also asks questions about sexuality, respect and modern life.
Patel focuses on his own body and from ritual activities including henna tattooing and tabla drumming, he creates a traditional Indian form of music.
It fuses the Indian classical 16-beat rhythmic cycle ‘Tin Taal’ with sound, movement, cloth and colour to create a new audio-visual conversation between the artists and the audience.
Sine Language
Sine Language is a major touring show in partnership with the City Gallery, Leicester. The piece adapts as it tours, with the artists responding both to the physical space in which the work is sited and the communities living and working nearby.
Here the multimedia installation comprises of four projections surrounding the visitor with images and sound and the effect is all encompassing.
Dinah Winch, curator at Oldham Gallery said: “The show takes over the gallery space even before you get there because the doors are open and you can hear the sound of it as you come up the stairs.”
Admission to the exhibition is free.
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