Video Wednesdays
       
 
Title
  The New Indian Porn (2008)
Year
  2008
Concept& Direction:
  Chintan Upadhay
 
 
The New Indian Porn is a video that Chintan Upadhyay did as a part of his ‘The New Indian’ show at Natalie Seroussie Gallery, Paris in 2008. This video is made of a series of MMS clippings and other pornographic visuals largely circulated amongst the Indian public. Chintan debates the issue of visual culture as a hybrid and pirated culture. In the virtual realm of communication, the ‘author-less’ images are circulated in order to mark the aspiration levels of a surging population. In this work, the aesthetical and ethical boundaries are collapsed as the artist assumes the role of a DJ who pirates, mixes and reinvent the already available visuals. He asserts that piracy of visuals and ideas has become a culture in itself that considerably influence the people all over the world, whether they want it in that way or not.