Being a movie buff, the lockdown gave me an opportunity to explore several films, which I wanted to watch for a long time, but didn’t have the time to. One day, I was lost in the wonders of worlds created by Studio Ghibli, and the other, in a prison cell with a former olympian runner amidst the world war. I played a different protagonist every single day and got to experience much more than what I could have by moving solo.
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We at SEA believe that the pandemic has a granularity of meta, non-linear narratives that become useful in making sense of the relational complexities of the pandemic and society. Thus, we set out to collect stories of fears, joys, agilities, fragilities, friendships, networks, collectives, home, work, infrastructures, entrepreneurship, privileges, marginalizations, migrations, desperation, gender, equity, etc. The glossary as a method became useful to reflect on this granularity of experiences and account for slippages during these times. These spatiotemporal stories, when read together or as individual instances produce a new sense of the emergent contemporary. This framework also allows us to speculate on the kind of world we will inhabit once the storm has passed. We draw on multiple readings to bring out the nuances and patterns of social life produced in a pandemic. This we hope would allow us to collectively reflect on the restructured ideas of the self, the collective, society, space, and time. In the midst of the pandemic, locked in, people searched for virtual escapes. The idea of role and gameplay was utilised to inhabit fictional worlds.
- Vastavikta Bhagat - CHANGING PROTAGONISTS - 2021
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