Kinnari World (NB this is the English title - other documentation uses the Hindi title)
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Title
Kinnari World (NB this is the English title - other documentation uses the Hindi title)
Description
Work by Kinnari Saraiya selected for the Manifestations exhibition by curator Laurence Hill for 'Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities', a project funded by the AHRC and the IRC, part of their ‘UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Research Grants Call’ (grant numbers AH/W001667/1 and IRC/W001667/1).
Kinnari and their male counterparts, Kinnara are half-bird, half-human beings of Buddhist and Hindu mythology, believed to live in the mythical realm of the Himavanta forest (Himalayas), which is inaccessible to humans.
In the heart of this world, Kinnaris take centre stage as celestial musicians and dancers. Their delicate folk-dance movements have the power to sway the very fabric of reality, causing ripples that can halt or tremble the human realm. She, a dancer of the mythical realm, and I, a dancer of the human realm, harmonise through motion capture. The movements of our bodies in rhythm with each other, unifies the sacred order of the world. The Kinnari’s presence is marked by the sound of bells adorning her feet. Each step she takes, each movement she makes, resonates through the veil between the worlds. The non-human world emerges into the human world, and with it, a symphony of unrealized thoughts and songs permeates the space. The emerging cosmology of this world evolves into a language that hovers between fiction and reality, in the threshold/liminal space.
The are screen caps from the original film
Kinnari and their male counterparts, Kinnara are half-bird, half-human beings of Buddhist and Hindu mythology, believed to live in the mythical realm of the Himavanta forest (Himalayas), which is inaccessible to humans.
In the heart of this world, Kinnaris take centre stage as celestial musicians and dancers. Their delicate folk-dance movements have the power to sway the very fabric of reality, causing ripples that can halt or tremble the human realm. She, a dancer of the mythical realm, and I, a dancer of the human realm, harmonise through motion capture. The movements of our bodies in rhythm with each other, unifies the sacred order of the world. The Kinnari’s presence is marked by the sound of bells adorning her feet. Each step she takes, each movement she makes, resonates through the veil between the worlds. The non-human world emerges into the human world, and with it, a symphony of unrealized thoughts and songs permeates the space. The emerging cosmology of this world evolves into a language that hovers between fiction and reality, in the threshold/liminal space.
The are screen caps from the original film
Date
2022
Identifier
FSFM00023_O
Creator
Kinnari Saraiya
Publisher
Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities
Subject
Art
contemporary art
film
screen art
Manifestations
video
motion capture
Hindu
Buddhist
Kinnari
Kinnara
non-human
human
dance
traditional Indian dance
mythology
computer animation
Contributor
Laurence Hill (metadata record, and curator)
Type
Video
Access Rights
CC-BY-NC-ND