Years (Varudangal)

Title: “VARUDANGAL (Years)”

Medium:  Single Channel Video Projection

Size, Mode: PAL Standard (720x576, 25.000 fps) Pal DVD

Duration: 00:04:49sec

Edition: 1/5

Projection: Wall projection (or) Plasma TV Projection

Previous Screening: Nil

Year of production: 2012

Music Sound Design: V.A.Badrinath

Concept &Creation: S.Vijayaraghavan

Link: https://vimeo.com/46682505

Varudangal:  00:04:49sec | Single Channel Video:  VARUDANGAL (Years) is a single channel audio- visual. This particular project, I used stop motion technique which I captured my own hand movements with multiplication in a circular order. Each hand is the same and each hand represent’s different names of Tamil Years. “The 60-year cycle of the Tamil Calendar is also found in many North and South Indian traditional Calendars, with the same name and sequence of Years. Its earliest reference is to be found in Surya Siddhanta, which Varahamihirar (550 CE) believed to be the most accurate of the then current theories of astronomy. The 60-yaer cycle is also used in the Chinese calendar”.

The mass repetition of stop-motion animation magnifies the subtle nuance, while distorting the whole ensemble into a mass activity. For instance, the hand gesture of simple mundane daily activity and how it develops and expresses into the medium of Art.