This hole is a half-dream of a dune
Yashaswini Raghunandan
26.06.2021 to 25.07.2021
For This hole is a half-dream of a dune, Yashaswini has been following different holes found in Marwan’s space, grasping, recording, and animating the sounds they leak in and out of Marwan, from (and to) perhaps as far as the in-between-the-walls, the street, the neighborhood, the city, the earth below, the Noord-Zuid lijn, and water-filtering-dunes.
With the project, Yashaswini aims to bring sounds that are at the edge of audibility, excavated from tiny, hidden holes within the space of Marwan, to the foreground. In order to highlight what gets left out, marginalized, or pushed to the periphery of one’s eyes or ears. She intends to use the holes in the space as a cue to journey inwards from the surface to deeper crusts of the earth where historical, geological, and metaphysical mysteries can come into sense. She will mix the live, uncontrolled sounds from Marwan with recordings she made at the Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen.
About the artist-filmmaker:
Yashaswini Raghunandan works with both film and sound to build narratives in the form of docu-fiction as a way to think about the present. She finished her artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in 2019. She is also a recipient of the INLAKS scholarship to study abroad at the Royal College of Art, London in Sound Art and Design (IED). In 2019 she made her first feature film ‘That cloud never left,’ which was premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Bright Future Competition) and won awards at Sharjah Film Platform (Best Experimental Documentary Film); Golden FILAF at Festival of Art and Film, Prepignan, France; Special Mention at 55th International New Cinema Show, Pesaro, Italy, and a Special Mention at Kasseler DokFest.
This project was being made possible with a growing group of people, up until now including Srivirat Mudumba, Nell Schwan, Marianna Maruyama, and Sarah Naqvi. ❤️!
Furthermore, This hole is a half-dream of a dune is supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, and is part of Marwan’s year of Leakage, which is supported by Mondriaan Fonds and held (up) with the help of our community.
Marwan would not be able to be what it currently is without AKINCI gallery.
