Kalanjay Dhir
Immersion: Parra River Patch
2020
A statement by the artist
“Stylised as a video game, Immersion is a performance and video work that follows the artist and his avatar swimming in the contaminated Parramatta River. Immersion considers, from a settler’s foreign perspective, the agency of the river akin to Aotearoa’s Whanganui River (NZ) and the Ganges. Immersion was made on the lands, skies and waters of the Burramattagal people of the Dharug nation. Sovereignty was never ceded.”
Score by Atro
Logo and UX by Alexander Tanazefti
Videography by Murli Dhir and Rob Milazzo
Kalanjay Dhir
Kalanjay Dhir is an artist and musician based in Sydney on Dharug land. His daily screen time has dropped from 9.5 hours a day to 4.5 hours. He enjoys thinking about consciousness. In order to talk to himself, Dhir has created numerous digital and physical avatars.
