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Kush Badhwar

Blood Earth

Doc. expérimental | hdv | couleur | 35:22 | Australie | 2013

Kucheipadar village in Odisha is a bauxite-rich block that since India’s economic liberalisation has been the subject of violent conflict between Adivasis and a mining venture. The singing of songs has come to articulate creative forms and political structures that steered the Kashipur resistance movement from subalternity, through solidarity and into dissolution. Blood Earth interweaves the efforts to record song, farming, village life and a political meeting to improvise a junction between voice, music, silence, sound and noise. Blood Earth is the second project of Word Sound Power, a New Delhi-based collective that constructs multimedia collaborations with South Asian artists on issues of social justice.

Kush Badhwar is a filmmaker and artist interested in shifting definitions of traditional mass-media, collaborating with unorthodox actors and using artistic intervention for improvised and informal political engagement. He is currently undertaking India Foundation of the Arts Archival Fellowship in India’s newest state, Telangana.