Hibernating Further

2019-2018 | performance-artist, producer, director, concept

Interdisciplinary performance(s) with sound-video installation, dance, interactivity, sound-interfaces, live-broadcast on spreading awareness towards the theme of plastic in our daily life.

Duration: 45 minutes

Keywords: Plasticity, plastic, media, technology, psychology, interactivity, mind.

The project aims to throw light upon the psychological behaviour of the human mind relating it with the ongoing ecological problems in the society.
The project “Hibernating Further” has two interdisciplinary performances: 12-15 minutes, titled “Hibernating” & 45 minutes “Hibernating Further” ; and a sound-video installation.

The behaviour of plastic, by definition in Oxford dictionary, is to form and deform. Taking the definition of plastic in the broader sense, the performance while addressing the current climate issue brings focus on the plasticity in the human mind and psychology: how different fragments of information shape the human mind and the human psychology. Jaskaran stresses on the need to be aware of our own actions and thoughts, meanwhile keeping attention towards the representations in the world that have the power to influence our thoughts & actions. He suggests that while we are finding a solution to the “problem of plastic”, we also need to focus on finding a solution to direct the unnecessary information entering our mind. With this project he also brings attention towards divide and rule political strategy via the concepts of capitalism, media consumption, racism & political power models.>/div>

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  Photo Credit: Patricia Cadavid

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  Photo Credit: Patricia Cadavid

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  Photo Credit: Patricia Cadavid

Artist’s Motivation

The work was initated as a result of playing with a plastic bag as a material and an interface. Fascinated by the materials usability Jaskaran researched on the different meanings of the word "plastic". He was informed about its presence in technological equipment, buildings, wires/cables, clinical equipment etc.
From this he inferred that we, as humans, are losing the ability to realize the facts involved with the material and even though we think that we did our job “right” by disposing the visible form of plastic off in the correct bin, it is still non-degradable and existing.
This ‘disposing off’ perspective in the use of plastic, and various others which are triggered by different stimulus we as individuals receive from our environment are shaping our minds in a certain way towards the mentioned theme. The variety of information coming from multiple representatives about plastic consumption and plastic banning, whether positive or negative, are forming and deforming our mind around the theme of plastic respectively. This mind game like the material plastic is also not visible to our naked eyes.

The use-abuse of plastic and the fluidity of the human mind both can be inter- and intra- related with the concept of object permanence by the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, which states the ability of a human child to realize that the object exists even when s/he cannot see it.
The behaviour of plastic, by definition in Oxford dictionary, is to form and deform. Taking the definition of plastic in the broader sense, the performance while addressing the current climate issue brings focus on the plasticity in the human mind and psychology: how different fragments of information shape the human mind and the human psychology. Jaskaran stresses on the need to be aware of our own actions and thoughts, meanwhile keeping attention towards the representations in the world that have the power to influence our thoughts & actions. He suggests that while we are finding a solution to the “problem of plastic”, we also need to focus on finding a solution to direct the unnecessary information entering our mind.

With this project he also brings attention towards divide and rule political strategy via the concepts of capitalism, media consumption, racism & political power models.

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  Photo Credit: Patricia Cadavid

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  Photo Credit: B. Ajay Sharma

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  Photo Credit: B. Ajay Sharma