PERFORMANCEOfferings, 2024
Offerings, 2023
Offerings, 2022
ALAKKALA, 2019
H:O:M:E, 2018
Mokita, 2017
MOVING IMAGEUntitled 02, 2022
Untitled, 2022
INTERWORLD, 2021
smooth-time, 2020
Portal of Possibilities, 2020
A Utah Time Signature, 2019
Book of Dream, 2018
A Los Angeles Time Signature, 2018
An Arctic Time Signature, 2015
INSTALLATIONBurial, 2023
Murti, 2018
The Moving Image, 2017
PHOTOGRAPHYDiosma, 2020
Territory of Darkness, 2020
Werebodies, 2020
Pool Hall, 2017
Walking In My Shoes (Ondru), 2018
Yumarrala Ngulu (Ondru), 2018
They Are Climbing Mt Asgard, 2014
Discs, 2014
Distant, Relative, 2013
Voiceless Journeys (Ondru), 2012
Allery Exhibitions, 2008
DRAWINGS
Dry Yellow, 2020
Dry Red, 2020
Dry Blue, 2018-20
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©2024 Devika Bilimoria Territory of Darkness, 2020
Published in THE SEERS' CATALOGUE, 2nd Edition
10 OCT 2020
Here is the beginning of a wider investigation regarding ecological image making - The Ecological Image.
TERRITORY OF DARKNESS is a photographic article that conceptually explores the astrophotographic digital photography practice of dark frame (a light and lens less image) captured from the internal electronic and thermal signals of a Nikon D70s' light sensitive CCD panel. It asks, how can the awareness of specific periodic elements within a digital camera realign the practice of photography to a cosmic, geologic, and ecological haunting?
This project primarily focuses on the element silicon, an active component in the CCD sensor that plays an important role in the conversion of light to electrons to image through feminist theorist Karen Barad’s notions of quantum discontinuity and intra-action, and, the experimentation of dark frame image creation.
The aim of this project, and The Ecological Image Project at large, is to decentralise the singular position of where an image is captured by bringing awareness to the interconnected systems of earthly extraction and labour that give rise to image capturing devices such as digital cameras. It endeavours to emphasise how non-human agents like digital cameras, and the images they make, are haunted by the materiality of the earth and cosmos from which they are made, to which humans are inextricably enmeshed.
The SUN and MOON image collections in TERRITORY OF DARKENSS document a D70s with materials such as a face, a palm, sand and another digital camera in the posture of a dark frame capture that was made within the D70s. In the article, the documented images are presented with an interactive dissolve with the dark frame image from the D70s.
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