What if I tell you that rainbows are monochrome and not VIBGYOR as we say? Will you laugh at me, argue, or do a quick search on your beloved google.com and show me the gallery feed that you so much revere? What if I manage to convince you in the next moment that ‘you’ were the one who told me about rainbows being monochrome? Will you just laugh at that proposition or do a google search again just to be sure? What if for that one fleeting moment, rather unknowingly, you somehow doubt yourself? Consider this applying to more important aspects of life and society. Then the question arises, ‘How do you believe in what you believe?’
If it is on the internet, it must be true
‘If it is on the internet, it must be true.’ In this well-oiled mechanism of a fact-guzzling world, both information and the informant somehow end up becoming either a travesty or a collective truth. *DING*, here comes another WhatsApp forward: a promising candidate may be, in this transtemporal competition of information. The time or the source through which information goes through seems to sufficiently modify one reality and make-believe in another. Speaking of source, let’s throw in individual biases in the mix. Where does that lead? This almost radical blurring of the limits of fiction and reality is where this installation stems from.
“How do you believe in what you believe?”
In this transtemporal competition of information, how do you determine the fine line between fiction and reality? ‘Sutro ke Anusaar’ is an experiential installation which lets the participant be the judge. As a master manipulator (more so an evil one), the Nazi propaganda minister, Jospeh Goebbels said, “A lie, repeated a thousand times, becomes a truth.” What if your own voice deceives you? In this decisive shift of ‘Alternative Fact’ regime, this installation seeks to explore the relation between “truth” and “personal biases/interests”. ‘Sutro ke Anusaar’ wants to ask you personally, “Can you trust yourself?”
whether a piece of information is simply fascinating fiction or just an excuse for a very lazy ‘Alternative Fact’
‘Sutro ke Anusaar’ (English: According to Sources) is an experiential installation in which the ever-changing fundamentals of truth have been looked at closely. The judgement of whether a piece of information is simply fascinating fiction or just an excuse for a very lazy ‘Alternative Fact’, is left for the participant to decide. What if your voice starts betraying you? The sense of mystery has thus been kept shrouded within the setting of this installation. Now, I must ask you again: “Can you trust yourself?”
