HOME		MELTDOWN 1 - RED RAGA  2008 SINGLE CHANNEL VIDEO,  APPROX 11 MIN. EDITION OF 5 + 1 ARTIST PROOF

	Produced, directed and edited by Nitin Mukul Soundtrack: Nitin Mukul: drums & scratches Dave Stacey: guitars Shannon Ketch: keyboards, organs & MOOG Jim Spring: guitars & Fisher Price devices	Red Raga was featured in the art journal Drain. http://www.drainmag.com Red Raga was premiered at Gallery Espace, New Delhi in 2008, curated by Johny ML Gallery Espace
	The Meltdown series of video works can be viewed as a poignant yet sublime post-apocalyptic meditation, playing with the duality of creation and deterioration. Ice is used here as the primary medium, which as it melts, echoes the the increasing frequency of floods, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. The work explores the boundaries of painting, and also serves as an intervention in the discourse on climate change .  It engages with a wide range of contemporary art historical practices,  including Process art, which places emphasis on an artwork's actual 'making' as opposed to the finished piece, and in this case, its 'unmaking' as a finished 'painting' unravels to reveal it's own creation through chance occurrences in a time based medium. It connects intimately to my painting practice both formally and conceptually. What distinguishes the piece is its placement at the interstices of film, painting, sculptural and process oriented practices. It's like a microcosm unfolding in time lapse. The imagery at once evokes perspectives not unlike satellite views of the planet, or the innermost workings of a living organism.