Ansuman Biswas

Ansuman Biswas was born in Calcutta and lives and works in London; he has an international artistic practice ranging across live art, music, film, theatre and writing. The artist's best known work, CAT, a comparative study of quantum physics and yogic philosophy, was installed at the South London Gallery (1998) and at the Lab, San Francisco (1999). Ansuman Biswas was invited to be artist in residence at Dartington and during this time he developed ideas for a new work drawing on the South West Film and Television Archive, commissioned in partnership with Picture This and funded by South West Screen.

Season is a four-screen installation that examines memory, identity, ghosts, rhythm and the roots of culture, partly refracted through an autobiographical lens. Biswas has constructed a pictorial and musical essay on journeying, death and the seasonal cycles. The work combines a colourful video of a ten day long Hindu funeral, with old, black and white, grainy pictures of Devon life.

Season is part of Ghosting, a national touring exhibition of newly commissioned moving image works by Erika Tan, Harold Offeh and Ansuman Biswas which explore themes of archive, memory and ethnography.

Exhibition:
5-9 November 2003

Dartington Hall, Totnes

17 April to 15 May 2004,

Spacex off-site project, Exeter

26 November 2005 – 8 January 2006

Chapter, Cardiff

18 February to 8 April 2006

Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham