Museum of Blue
Installation, Dimensions variable
Part of Vasl artist association's year-long research project, 'Museum of Blue'.
In 'Blue noise', 'Blue' is studied as a universal experience, and looks at how the 'meaning' is formed, and how it manifests itself in the collective memory.
The project uses the word, ‘Museum’ as a starting point to conflate the separation between local and global. I collaborated with two agents of information: open source Large Language Models, and elderly women of my village Dhokri, in rural Pakistan. The work is focusing on how the meaning shifts/expands or fragments when something is viewed from disparate viewpoints, be it technological, or analogue. The collective versus the personal experience of the same thing is what I am interested in studying and translating. The idea of ‘untranslatable’ keeps resurfacing in this installation. For instance, one language model, when asked what a museum of blue should look like, instructed me to ‘attach a blue pole next to a moving fan, so when the fan moves, there will be a blue breeze in the room’. The resulting installation felt like a virtual glitch in the physical space.