INSTALLATIONS
Resonator - Reanimator at Boca Raton Museum of Art
https://bocamuseum.org/art/sri-prabha-resonator-reanimator
Wed, Jun 14, 2023 - Sun, Oct 22, 2023
a site-specific multi-sensory installation that explores our connection to the natural world by commingling ideas from Vedic philosophy and science.Abstract patterned digital projections sweep the walls, covering paintings and sculptures to create constantly shifting organic forms. Paired with audio of monks chanting, the overall feel is that of preparing the mind for meditation. Within the mind frame of meditation, visitors will see references to both the smallest and greatest elements of our universe.Spiraling, pulsing amorphous shapes call to mind the view through a microscope, and twinkling flashes of light are reminiscent of a telescope’s sight. Melded together, they will create a psychedelic environment of saturated colors.
Install images by Jacek Gancarz
Brahama 3. 3 (1080P) channel video with audio. Dur 10:55
This video work is a semi biographic document of inception to the ongoing voyage of life and our dis/connection to the natural world. Having been raised in a bicultural landscape, I am sometimes at a loss as to where home exactly seems to be. The only constant is change and our adaptation to the new circumstances presented.I view this as a joyful odyssey but completely aware of the hazards present in current times. The blind nationalism and the dangers of a culture that dispels scientific knowledge while our forests are literally burning and the waters keep rising. There is something like a dead reckoning waiting in the wings for all.
Spaceresearchcentre/AKA Southern Lights, via the Transmutable Central Dharma Gateway Incorporating the 5 Known Elements at Orlando Museum of Art. 2019 Dimensions Variable,8 video projections,3 audio channels,5 monitors,and mixed media.
Opening Reception for Spaceresearchcentre May 31.2019 Orlando Museum of Art / Florida Prize 2019 Show . Runs thru 8.19.2019
Spaceresearchcentre/AKA Southern Lights, via the Transmutable Central Dharma Gateway Incorporating the 5 Known Elements is conceived as a non-terrestrial environment that transports the visitor to an alternate plane of thought, free from everyday stress and worries. Concepts for the environment coalesced from Indian Vedic knowledge, John Muir’s conservation ethics, Native American connections to the natural world, and contemporary thoughts in science relating to our understanding of the universe. Immersive video projections light up sculptural assemblages, paintings, and photo-based works evoking forms reminiscent of geometries, crystalline shapes, primordial plants, and outer space. In this work, analog and digitally constructed video footage of seeds, galaxies, flora, and fauna spill across the floor, ceiling, and walls, creating an immersive interconnected world. As viewers interact with the installation, they become active participants within the artwork, their own shadows moving, spinning, and existing. Kinetic images engage viewers to seriously consider how they relate to the natural world and encourage finding deeper connections to it.
Entering the gallery, visitors encounter a twilight scene in which a central structure is surrounded by five elemental pods hanging from space. Inspired by Indian Vedic tradition, the 5 elements represented are:
- Akasha is aether or an imperceptible infinite space. Sound is its main facet and Prabha also imagines it as Dark Matter, something that we now know comprises 85% of all matter in the Universe. An area that we may yet reach and ascend.
- Air is related to breath, thought, flight and intellect. It is movement and life giving. Prabha is fascinated by the migratory birds that visit Florida and wonders at their journeys. While that is happening, we as humans have raised CO2 levels above 400ppm (parts per million).
- Fire purifies and accepts sacrifice. Sight is touched by fire. We cremate our departed ones to purify the body, and the ashes are returned to the cosmos via water. We also witness colossal fires burning cities in relation to climate change.
- Water is connected to memories and Praha reflects on the many ways we preserve these digitally or as symbols of being locked away in time. Climate change has increased the rates of severe droughts as well as rising sea levels.
- Earth is physical and practical. Our natural world exists for itself. The human need to see nature as a resource to be exploited is unraveling our existence. The beauty and splendor of what we have on Earth is in peril.
Participants are encouraged to explore the hanging pods and the works on the periphery before encountering the central structure. Inside are specimens and artifacts that Prabha has collected on many journeys and residencies. The structure has an opening at the top where birds may enter. Where a discoverer may take different forms, as in the transmutation from one species to another inspired by reincarnation. It is a place for dreams perhaps, where somehow one can shift or move their consciousness and find their own way to steward civilization and nature away from destruction.
Discussed on the Orlando Weekly:
Excerpt:
JBY: Yes, and it takes you right into Sri Prabha's installation in the next gallery, perhaps the climax of the show.
"Spaceresearchcentre/AKA Southern Lights, via the Transmutable Central Dharma Gateway Incorporating the 5 Known Elements" is an immersive sound and light and color experience. Giant structures hanging from the ceiling represent the natural world, organized into the Vedic elements of earth, air, fire, water and ether. These pods hang from the ceiling, sort of kite-like, with more paintings on the walls, images projected over them, and little shrines of natural materials in all the corners. It's overwhelming and beautiful and stimulating.
RTR: I had the same reaction. However, you must read the wall text to get what he's really doing with the five elements and how to become more interconnected with nature and the earth.
Original link:
https://m.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/the-2019-florida-prize-in-contemporary-art-rejoices-in-the-chaotic-trashy-poignant-reverent-transcendent-interconnectedness-of-the-world/Content?oid=25422447
Documentation Images.
ORIGIN
Art and Culture Center/Hollywood
Featuring a meditative environment “Nightlands 3,” an oscillating video that explores our connection to the oceans and our dependency on the water cycle. Designed specifically for one of the gallery rooms at the Center.
Art and Culture Center/Hollywood
Featuring a meditative environment “Nightlands 3,” an oscillating video that explores our connection to the oceans and our dependency on the water cycle. Designed specifically for one of the gallery rooms at the Center.
Night Lands 3 now showing at E4c
4Culture Media Gallery November 2017 / https://www.4culture.org/gallery_work/sri-prabha/
101 Prefontaine Pl S, Seattle, WA 98104
Night Lands 3 is an immersive poetic exploration of our connection to the oceans and our dependency on the water cycle.
Night Lands 3 is designed to be shown across 4 large screens, or projected on four walls in a room to impart the full scope of the nature of water and its presence in our lives. Elements of time, space, archeology, geology, and fossils are evident throughout the ever fleeting imagery.
Living in Florida, we are surrounded by and enriched by water, but also occasionally sieged by it. The Anthropocene is now readily impacting our coastlines and this work was finished during Irma, the largest hurricane in recorded history! Conversely, on a recent foray into Utah, Prabha was amazed by the role of water in shaping the canyons and mountains. The ancient is brought to the present. Geologic time contrasted with human experience.
Prabha started creating portions of the work about two years ago which included collecting geological and mineral specimens and filming in Utah, Wyoming, Georgia, and Florida. He thanks the Brush Creek Center for the Arts in Wyoming and Hambidge Center in Georgia where he had artist residencies that allowed time and the environment to begin and end this project.
4Culture Media Gallery November 2017 / https://www.4culture.org/gallery_work/sri-prabha/
101 Prefontaine Pl S, Seattle, WA 98104
Night Lands 3 is an immersive poetic exploration of our connection to the oceans and our dependency on the water cycle.
Night Lands 3 is designed to be shown across 4 large screens, or projected on four walls in a room to impart the full scope of the nature of water and its presence in our lives. Elements of time, space, archeology, geology, and fossils are evident throughout the ever fleeting imagery.
Living in Florida, we are surrounded by and enriched by water, but also occasionally sieged by it. The Anthropocene is now readily impacting our coastlines and this work was finished during Irma, the largest hurricane in recorded history! Conversely, on a recent foray into Utah, Prabha was amazed by the role of water in shaping the canyons and mountains. The ancient is brought to the present. Geologic time contrasted with human experience.
Prabha started creating portions of the work about two years ago which included collecting geological and mineral specimens and filming in Utah, Wyoming, Georgia, and Florida. He thanks the Brush Creek Center for the Arts in Wyoming and Hambidge Center in Georgia where he had artist residencies that allowed time and the environment to begin and end this project.
Nightland 3 .Excerpt.
Night Lands 3, Four Screen Video. Dur:15:34 Year: 2017
Night Lands 3 is an immersive poetic exploration of our connection to the oceans and our dependency on the water cycle. The work is designed to be shown across 4 large screens, or projected on four walls in a room to impart the full scope of the nature of water and its presence in our lives. Elements of timespace, archeology, geology, and fossils are evident throughout the ever fleeting imagery.
Living in Florida, we are ever surrounded by and enriched by water, but also under occasional siege by it. The Anthropocene is now readily impacting our coastlines and this work was finished during Irma, the largest hurricane in recorded history! Conversely, on a recent foray into Utah, I was amazed by the role of water in shaping the canyons and mountains. The ancient is brought to the present. Geologic time contrasted with human experience!
I started creating portions of the work about two years ago which included collecting geological and mineral specimens and filming in Utah, Wyoming, Georgia, and Florida. I wanted to thank Brush Creek Center for the Arts in Wyoming and Hambidge Center in Georgia where I had artist residencies that allowed time and the environment to begin and end this project.
Night Lands 3 is an immersive poetic exploration of our connection to the oceans and our dependency on the water cycle. The work is designed to be shown across 4 large screens, or projected on four walls in a room to impart the full scope of the nature of water and its presence in our lives. Elements of timespace, archeology, geology, and fossils are evident throughout the ever fleeting imagery.
Living in Florida, we are ever surrounded by and enriched by water, but also under occasional siege by it. The Anthropocene is now readily impacting our coastlines and this work was finished during Irma, the largest hurricane in recorded history! Conversely, on a recent foray into Utah, I was amazed by the role of water in shaping the canyons and mountains. The ancient is brought to the present. Geologic time contrasted with human experience!
I started creating portions of the work about two years ago which included collecting geological and mineral specimens and filming in Utah, Wyoming, Georgia, and Florida. I wanted to thank Brush Creek Center for the Arts in Wyoming and Hambidge Center in Georgia where I had artist residencies that allowed time and the environment to begin and end this project.
The Night Lands
4 video projections, sound, mixed media, photo based prints, dimensions variable.
The Night Lands,Installation video, 4 video projections, sound, mixed media, photo based prints, dimensions variable.2016
Special VR interface here,walk thru virtually on any device:
http://360degreeshows.com/nightlands/
Press Excerpt:by Andrea Richard Broward Palm Beach New Times
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/arts/punky-curator-jane-hart-resurfaces-with-an-ambitious-all-media-show-7384426
Broward resident Sri Prabha, a major installation mixed-media artist who was named New Times Best Visual Artist 2015, is showing new work called The Night Lands, featuring other-worldly video projections and actual geological samples such as optical calcite, volcanic rock from craters of the moon, and fossils he collected during a summer artist residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Wyoming."If you take someone and put them on a different planet — we are 50 years away from manned expeditions on Mars; it's not too far away — you realize it equalizes our ethnographic differences," Prabha says. "The Night Lands looks at geology, time, consciousness, and how they all interplay in our daily lives. The idea is to feel like you are on an archaeological survey on some planet somewhere."
Featured in 100+ Degrees in The Shade,A Survey of South Florida Art.Curated by Jane Hart with assistance from Chris Ingalls,and Nina Arias.
http://www.100degreesintheshade.com/
3900 North Miami Ave. (Design District),on view thru January
The Night Lands is Prabha’s latest immersive video installation featuring multiple video projections, photo based works, and geological specimens. One can see videos of natural elements from ancient forests, lava caves, fossils, flora and fauna fused with text, moving mandalas, and light fields to encourage meditation, and raise consciousness. Walking thru the installation conjures ideas of deep time, the cosmos, archeology, and elicits a fundamental connectedness to nature, spirituality, and wellbeing.
4 video projections, sound, mixed media, photo based prints, dimensions variable.
The Night Lands,Installation video, 4 video projections, sound, mixed media, photo based prints, dimensions variable.2016
Special VR interface here,walk thru virtually on any device:
http://360degreeshows.com/nightlands/
Press Excerpt:by Andrea Richard Broward Palm Beach New Times
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/arts/punky-curator-jane-hart-resurfaces-with-an-ambitious-all-media-show-7384426
Broward resident Sri Prabha, a major installation mixed-media artist who was named New Times Best Visual Artist 2015, is showing new work called The Night Lands, featuring other-worldly video projections and actual geological samples such as optical calcite, volcanic rock from craters of the moon, and fossils he collected during a summer artist residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Wyoming."If you take someone and put them on a different planet — we are 50 years away from manned expeditions on Mars; it's not too far away — you realize it equalizes our ethnographic differences," Prabha says. "The Night Lands looks at geology, time, consciousness, and how they all interplay in our daily lives. The idea is to feel like you are on an archaeological survey on some planet somewhere."
Featured in 100+ Degrees in The Shade,A Survey of South Florida Art.Curated by Jane Hart with assistance from Chris Ingalls,and Nina Arias.
http://www.100degreesintheshade.com/
3900 North Miami Ave. (Design District),on view thru January
The Night Lands is Prabha’s latest immersive video installation featuring multiple video projections, photo based works, and geological specimens. One can see videos of natural elements from ancient forests, lava caves, fossils, flora and fauna fused with text, moving mandalas, and light fields to encourage meditation, and raise consciousness. Walking thru the installation conjures ideas of deep time, the cosmos, archeology, and elicits a fundamental connectedness to nature, spirituality, and wellbeing.
ORBITING CATHEDRALS
Young At Art Museum ON VIEW TILL DEC 2015. 751 SW 121st Ave, Davie, FL 33325 (954) 424-0085
Orbiting Cathedrals, at Young at Art Museum, Davie,FL Mixed media, 11 video channels (6 projections,5 monitors) dimensions variable, Dur: infinite variable loops. 2015
Through kinetic imagery and sound, participants are propelled on a far-away journey outside the stratosphere. Prabha’s interactive and dynamic installation uses multi-video projections, mixed media, sound, and photo-based works to transcend physical space. No bystanders, viewers are transformed into explorers on a mission to decode their purpose.
Special VR interface here,walk thru virtually on any device:
http://360degreeshows.com/orbitingcathedrals/
Official Broward 100 Sanctioned Event #broward100
Young At Art Museum ON VIEW TILL DEC 2015. 751 SW 121st Ave, Davie, FL 33325 (954) 424-0085
Orbiting Cathedrals, at Young at Art Museum, Davie,FL Mixed media, 11 video channels (6 projections,5 monitors) dimensions variable, Dur: infinite variable loops. 2015
Through kinetic imagery and sound, participants are propelled on a far-away journey outside the stratosphere. Prabha’s interactive and dynamic installation uses multi-video projections, mixed media, sound, and photo-based works to transcend physical space. No bystanders, viewers are transformed into explorers on a mission to decode their purpose.
Special VR interface here,walk thru virtually on any device:
http://360degreeshows.com/orbitingcathedrals/
Official Broward 100 Sanctioned Event #broward100
Installation Video
SHADOWMANCER
3 video projectors and mixed media, dimensions variable. March-April 2015
Fatvillage Projects Contemporary Art Space.
This sculptural video work resembling a neuron or an amoebic shape examines what's first observed and what's remembered. One projection reveals a set pattern of memories, while another projection is replaying the moments in real time with viewer interaction. This work alludes to the collective unconscious,neural memories, and connections within.
OUTPOST
Video and mixed media, Dimensions Variable.2014. Art and Culture Center of Hollywood.
http://artandculturecenter.org/sri-prabha-outpost Sept. 6 – Nov. 2, 2014
Broward100 Artist Grant Project Fractured Atlas Frost Science
Outpost is a site specific installation inspired by space, biology, and exploration. An otherworldly campsite is presented bathed in video and natural sounds. On view are basic shelters and a symbolic fireplace surrounded by mixed-media works inspired by images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, particle physics, microbiology, and an ongoing collaboration with the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum.
Video and mixed media, Dimensions Variable.2014. Art and Culture Center of Hollywood.
http://artandculturecenter.org/sri-prabha-outpost Sept. 6 – Nov. 2, 2014
Broward100 Artist Grant Project Fractured Atlas Frost Science
Outpost is a site specific installation inspired by space, biology, and exploration. An otherworldly campsite is presented bathed in video and natural sounds. On view are basic shelters and a symbolic fireplace surrounded by mixed-media works inspired by images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, particle physics, microbiology, and an ongoing collaboration with the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum.
Crystal Beacon Rover
Mixed media with four projectors and audio,dimensions variable.
July 26th- August 30th Haptic Colors at Fatvillage Projects Contemporary Art Space.
Curated by Leah Brown, Christian Feneck and Peter Symons
Haptic; adjective:Relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects .
Haptic Colors is a group exhibition of artists who are using color in space to transcend the 2-dimensional picture plane. The five installations and two videos that are on view are non-representational, and necessitate physical proximity to the work to fully experience the optical and visually tactile malleabilities of each piece.
Mixed media with four projectors and audio,dimensions variable.
July 26th- August 30th Haptic Colors at Fatvillage Projects Contemporary Art Space.
Curated by Leah Brown, Christian Feneck and Peter Symons
Haptic; adjective:Relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects .
Haptic Colors is a group exhibition of artists who are using color in space to transcend the 2-dimensional picture plane. The five installations and two videos that are on view are non-representational, and necessitate physical proximity to the work to fully experience the optical and visually tactile malleabilities of each piece.
Noise Reduction Experiment #3
Noise Reduction Experiment #3, Video Installation. Multiple projectors,mixed media, dimensions variable.
Downtown Hollywood,FL
Noise Reduction Experiment #3, Video Installation. Multiple projectors,mixed media, dimensions variable.
Downtown Hollywood,FL
Noise Reduction Experiment # 2
Multi channel video projection and mixed media.Dimensions Variable,2014
Ingraham Building,Miami.
Multi channel video projection and mixed media.Dimensions Variable,2014
Ingraham Building,Miami.
HISTORY MIAMI ,DUPONT BUILDING INSTALLATION 2014
Mixed media, video and sculpture.
Collaboration with Charles Falarara. Sculpture by Charles Falarara.
Mixed media, video and sculpture.
Collaboration with Charles Falarara. Sculpture by Charles Falarara.
VIDEO ART
new rhythms compressed from Sri Prabha on Vimeo.
New rhythms is about viewing the gardens and environment of the Dallas Arboretum in a new way by especially slowing down the time factor that we would normally observe such phenomenon. I've used a special method to slow down everything that we would normally experience at 24 fps and present the work shot at a thousand frames per second and now we see it in that slow motion format.
The rhythms of normal speed become something that transcends our natural ability to see things at this rate.The soundtrack for this was from an African drumming passage, which was slowed down considerably. Both human and non-human rhythms have been drastically slowed to their Primal components to be reviewed and experienced from completely alternate perspective.
The rhythms of normal speed become something that transcends our natural ability to see things at this rate.The soundtrack for this was from an African drumming passage, which was slowed down considerably. Both human and non-human rhythms have been drastically slowed to their Primal components to be reviewed and experienced from completely alternate perspective.
Cosmos 1 from Sri Prabha on Vimeo.