Gupta, Shilpa b.1976 / I Keep Falling At You
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about this work
A bundle of more than 1000 microphones hangs from the ceiling like a bunch of ripe grapes. Shilpa Gupta has rewired the microphones to create loudspeakers that play a multi-channel sound and speech composition. The text picks up on the visual impression of heaviness. I keep falling at you deals with opposites: with endless falling, with burial, being buried and disappearing.

I keep falling at you
But I keep falling at you (chorus, repeat)  
Your garden is growing on me
I will take it away with me  
To a land which you can mark no more
Where distances don’t grow anymore  
I keep falling at you
But I keep falling at you (chorus, repeat)

"The piece is a symptom of our media age: A dark cloud if microphones like angry bees, which follows public figures from politicians to actors every minute and penetrate every privacy. This cloud of media can elevate a person or destroy a person. Therefore the work by Gupta is extremely poetical and critical at the same time, a paradox, which is only possible by the great dignity of an art work." (Prof. Peter Weibel, 2013)

Shilpa Gupta (b.1976, India)

I Keep Falling At You, 2010

Object built with thousands of microphones and multi-channel audio
380 x 200 x 130 cm.
149 5/8 x 78 3/4 x 51 3/16 in.
—Provenance:
Vadehra Gallery, New Delhi, India —Current Location:
Germany - ZKM, Karlsruhe —InstallationSouth Asia

exhibitions

Luther and the Avant Garde
Stiftung fur Kunst und Kultur, Bonn, Germany
05/19/2017 - 09/17/2017

New Indian Art
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
September 2015 - November 2015

From Speaker to Receiver
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA
June 2014 - August 2014

Sound Art. Klang als Medium der Kunst
Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
March 2012 - January 2020

Inner Voices
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
July 2011 - November 2011

India Highway IV
Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
February 2011 - July 2011

Shilpa Gupta
OK Centrum, Linz, Austria
November 2010 - January 2011

Shilpa Gupta, organized by Galleria Continua
Blandy Castle, France
June 2010 - October 2010

publications

Luther and the Avante Garde
(Booklet), May 19 2017

Walter Smerling, Luther und die Avant Garde
(Book), 2017

Gwen Kuo, Shilpa Gupta: Breaking through the Invisible Boundary
Gwenart (Online), April 19, 2013
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ZKM, Sound Art:Sound as a Medium of Art
ZKM gallery, Bonn, Germany (Catalogue), 2012

Leon Tan, Shilpa Gupta: A Cutting Edge
Artetc Magazine (Magazine), December 2011

How We Think, Who We Are?
Asian POINT Contemporary Art Magazine (Magazine), 2011
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Nancy Adajania, Shilpa Gupta: Stained by the Abandoned Voices of History
Take On Art Magazine (Magazine), January- March 2010
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Damien Sausset, Shilpa Gupta
Blandy Art Tour (Catalogue), 2010

I keep falling at you - Shilpa Gupta
Zentrum fur Kunst und Mendientechnologie Karlstruhe (Other),
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India Highway
Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Koenig Books (Catalogue),

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