Nisha Duggal will be at ISIS Arts throughout July as part of our 2009 research residency programme.

Duggal creates work around the mechanics of identity, sampling imagery from contemporary culture to engineer video works that engage the viewer through their complex manipulation of everyday situations

She is interested in the omnipresent but often redundant nature of technology. Using real-time manipulation software for digital video such as 'Isadora', for merging audiovisual material with live performance she challenges the ‘reality’ of an artwork. Everyday events are recorded and examined, every mannerism observed, repeated and dissected to the point of obsession.
 
“Picnolepsy” is a term coined by writer Paul Virilio to illustrate how contemporary humans ‘dumb down’ their experiences of living in a world with excess information as a way of preserving our fragile egos. As if your experience must pixilate into smaller, more manageable fragments - a coping strategy for living in our society of speed. Similarly, Nisha tries to make sense of the jumbled landscape, making the complicated simple.

Nisha Duggal, lives /works in London; studied at University of Derby and The Slade Schol of Art. In 2008, her work 'Machine' was short listed for the Jerwood Moving Image Awards. Her most recent exhibition was a solo presentation as Art connexion in Lille in February 2009. Projects have included commissions for Conjunction, Stoke on Trent, UK; Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK and Contemporary Art Forum, Canada. Group exhibitions include ‘Speed is open’, Bearspace Gallery, London; ‘Visions in the Nunnery’, Bow Arts Trust, London; ‘Dislocate’, Ginza Art Lab, Tokyo; ‘16th Mostyn Open’, Liandudno, Wales; ‘You shall know our velocity’, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK and ‘Platform00005’, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK

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