The mall, in my view is a unique urban phenomenon that can be found everywhere and 
seems from nowhere in particular. It functions as a fantastical artifice that did not seem specific 
to any one geographical location. In a sense, the mall seems to be atopic, embodying a feeling 
of placelessness. ( Atopia/atopic comes from the word Atopos that literally means ‘non-place’ 
or ‘without place’).
For ‘ Listen Up- a public sound art exhibition’ I have attempted to explore this notion of 

atopia within the framework of a mall, through the act of storytelling. The audio is comprised 

of stories of characters whose existence is directly or indirectly interlaced with the mall and the 

mall itself.

These narratives are inter-related but self-contained short stories. The aim is not to create 

a fiction out of the real, but to highlight how the real and mundane is fantastical.

Mallsounds_ listenup!

Knot is an audio piece that accompanied the physical action of tying knots of a fabric aiming to draw attention the ideas of entanglement and repetition in our physical and mental states  

knot

This spoken word piece accompanied an installation exploring the individual human ritual or need to pass on to the next generation. The audio piece is a time capsule of sorts where each voice has recorded a message for his/her progeny. The accompanying installation comprised of elements from a traditional Hindu death ceremony

anjanak