Convenience of Silence

A sound installation, "Convenience of Silence" was born from a long-drawn need to build sensitive narratives around gender-based violence. Locating it within the philosophy of Paulo Friere's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the installation aimed at building solidarity and a sense of one's own role in the larger conversations of gender-based oppression and violence.

Co-designing and co-curated with Aditi Rindani, a former RJ and communications consultant, this installation was designed as an experience, where the audience become participants in understanding the various facets of oppression - Exploitation, Powerlessness, Indoctrination and Violence, leaving the exhibition having done a act of breaking their silence. The audios contained recordings of various people who had featured in shows of Radio Nazariya and had provided their stories. Using other archival material such as news and dialogues from films, the audios were curated to the four themes described above.

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This installation was part of "Sonic Terrains" - an audio installation exhibition organized by Radio Nazariya and Drishti in Ahmedabad.

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