October 20th, 2009
Monica Narula: Digital Delhi
A trip to India is an exciting thing, indeed, and there are many fantastic prospects here that can set anyone to long days of musing about the upcoming travel. New Delhi is one of the largest cities in India, by area and population, and one of the most densely-populated in the world. Coming here can be a life-changing experience, offering a glimpse into many other ways of living and being in the world. For visitors looking to experience the heart of India, with a fine dose of luxury, New Delhi four star hotels can have an awful lot to offer. There is a rich combination of sumptuous style and old-world hospitality, and guests might feel so welcome here that they won’t want to leave.
There is so much to see in New Delhi, however, and although it’s infinitely complex, and always unwinding, it’s a wonderful experience to jump into the heart of it and see what the days and night have to bring you. There’s something new at every turn, and wherever you begin to look, you’ll be lead in a hundred new directions, and a splendid opening into New Delhi is through its art. One place to start looking, which will lead immediately to a thousand new windows and doors, is at the work of Monica Narula.
Her background is English literature and filmmaking, and she’s worked as an artist for many years, but is perhaps better known as a media practitioner. Or perhaps it’s better to say, more underground rather than better known, because the work is complex, hard to read, and enormously fascinating. She was one of the co-founders of the Raqs Media Collective, which started in New Delhi in 1992 as a way for like-minded artists to work together on projects that used critical theory, new technologies, and a view toward new ways of creating art. She is also a founding member of Sarai, another collective formed for combining theory and practice. Her work is a hybrid of digital art with other new forms, to make complicated questions for a complex time. Looking toward an age of new media in the world, New Delhi seems to have something rather exciting going on.
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