Sauranav Deka

Information Experience Design (MA)

10042105@network.rca.ac.uk

The soundscape and film is divided into 3 chapters, each chapter focusing on different stories from around the tea garden and follows a sequence from day-to-night of the gardeners.

IST-1:00 is a multi-part film and soundtrack that not just hypothesise regarding miseries of this community but also reflect provocatively upon what has been and what went wrong.

Stretched canvas stained with Assam tea leaves being suspended above it

Made with pure Assam tea and dried Assam tea leaves, muslin is attached to the wooden frame and it was used to stain the canvas underneath. The stick was/is used by the tea gardeners to measure the level of the plantation bushes where, in the context of this project and in this sculpture, there is nothing left to measure and is now a redundant and unnecessary tool that remains to not serve a purpose for the community anymore in the supposed future.

About

Being a practitioner of Sound Design and User Experience, Sauranav (saw-run-av) constantly focuses to explore the field further, usually through stories that I have a personal connection with. My practice revolves around building experiences based on narratives from daily lives that require and deserve preserving through making it accessible to everyone.

I am intrigued by human psychology and how a sense of identity plays a huge part in everyday conversation for people from this region as an often neglected or overlooked part of the country based on distance from the mainland, our physical appearance and languages, etc. ‘IST-1:00’ is a collection of stories from a part of the state in the country of India where I was born, the North-East. The contribution that Assam agriculture has to the country’s trade and export sector and the global popularity of its tea is invaluable. But, all’s not well in the actual tea estates of the state of Assam as it is even further neglected and not protected by the country’s political bodies. Through my practice, I wish to explore real stories of the world via immersive storytelling and eventually, provoke thought on understanding the relationship between history and the future through various lenses in the context of these stories.

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