2020, interactive sound installation (with Isha Ram Das)
Sound installation with clay lotas, soil, ash, ultrasonic distance sensors, speakers, variable dimensions.

Vessels (2020) is the first iteration of an interactive sound installation developed by siblings Sancintya Mohini Simpson and Isha Ram Das which reframes colonial histories and perspectives on Indian indenture in the colony of Natal (now KwaZulu–Natal, South Africa) through experimental sound.

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'Vessels' 2020, interactive sound installation (with Isha Ram Das). Photo: Charlie Hillhouse.

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'Vessels' 2020, interactive sound installation (with Isha Ram Das). Photo: Charlie Hillhouse.

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'Vessels' 2020, interactive sound installation (with Isha Ram Das). Photo: Charlie Hillhouse.

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'Vessels' 2020, interactive sound installation (with Isha Ram Das). Photo: Charlie Hillhouse.

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'Vessels' 2020, interactive sound installation (with Isha Ram Das). Photo: Charlie Hillhouse.

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'Vessels' 2020, interactive sound installation (with Isha Ram Das). Photo: Charlie Hillhouse.

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'Vessels' 2020, interactive sound installation (with Isha Ram Das). Photo: Charlie Hillhouse.

Vessels (2020) was supported through Metro Arts 2020 Artist-In-Residence at Norman Park Substation.