Sonal Jain artist, teacher (born 5 Dec' 1975, India)
Studies
1994-98 Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, india B.F.A. Faculty of Fine Arts
2002 National Film archive of India, Pune, Film appreciation
Contact address house # 10, Narengi Housing col, Narengi, Guwahati -781026, India
Telephone +91 361 2642515/ 91-94355-56762
e-mail sonalj2006@yahoo.com
URL: www.desiremachinecollective.net
Sonal Jain is a visual artist & teacher of Communication Design & Film.
collective, "Desire Machine", currently organiz South & Southeast Asian artists.
Currently working as Visiting Lecturer, Department of Mass Communication,Sikkim Manipal University Shillong Center , Teaching Photography, Communication and Media. Sonal's work has been shown both nationally and internationally and she has participated in many residencies and workshops.She is co-ordinating the Khoj Guwahati .
Workshop /Residency: 2007 Kasheer International artists workshop 2007, Srinagar.
2006, Werkleitz Gescelschaft e.v residency, Halle, Germany.
Filmography
2006
"25/75", an experimental video, 6.40mins
The film looks at the play of numbers and the world it seems to create in the game of "Teer," (arrow).
"Aliyah", (return home), digital video, 27 mins
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
"About body, borders and other things”, digital video, 8 mins
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
2005 "ALFA BETA", collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
"DAILY CHECKUP", miniDV/experimental two channel video loop/sound/8 min loop
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
"D.A.N.", installation
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
"L.O.H."(Line of Hunger), DV/sound/colour/9 mins
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
2004
“Politics of real time”, a multimedia installation/mini DV/four channel video loop/sound/10 min loop
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
“Once upon a time, Guwahati”, a documentary film on the urban transformation/ mini DV/ 31 mins
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
Exhibition & Screening
2007 25/75/_"Experimenta", at Bangalore and Bombay, India,
Festival Director: Shai Heradia, A Filter Project in collaboration with Goethe-Institut
2006 Aliyah (return home) // "Moving Spirits", at Francke Foundation gallery, Halle, Germany,
curated Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V. Germany
About body, borders and other things & Aliyah / "Ghost in the machine"
an exhibition curated by Pooja sood, Appejay media gallery, New Delhi, India
About body, borders and other things & Daily check up / "Short Shorts",
curated by Sharmila Samant, Goethe Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, India
About body, borders and other things & Daily check up / "Impossible India", Parallel
Economies in Contemporary Art, Frankfurter Kunstverein Berlin, curated by Sharmila Samant
2005 Daily check up/ Alfa Beta & Disturbed area network / Ï"A Notebook on geography",
a solo show at Khoj Studio, New Delhi, India
Line of Hunger / "Globalization @ Hunger", at SESC, Pinheiros, Sao Paulo Brazil &
"House of World Social Forum India", PortoAlegre, Brazil.
2004 Politics of real time / International Symposium,
"Towards a New Asia: Transnationalism and Northeast India", Guwahati, India
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