My Silence Would Be As Stone
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‘For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a now that can breed futures…’
— Audre Lorde, A Litany for Survival
Inspired by Audre Lorde’s ‘A Litany for Survival’, MY SILENCE WOULD BE AS STONE envisions the invisible hopes and fears across the colonial history and generations of the artist’s lineage, calling upon the petition-and-response structure of the litany as both a recursive process and manifold introspection within AI conversational and image synthesis models.
As a triptych, the piece manifests the ritual practice of silent prayer between object, environment, and repetition — revealing the envelopes of identity that would not diminish but be amplified by context, the physical tension between what is expressed and what is withheld, and the temporal boundary where the voices of the past would echo those of the present in an unspoken dream of self-sovereignty.
FEATURED IN
Media Under Dystopia: WISPer Edition. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art x MUD Foundation. Denver, CO. 9 —10 April 2024.
OUTLAND | Outland and Hans Ulrich Obrist. 24 February 2024.
Media Under Dystopia: WISPer Edition. MUD Foundation. Miami, FL. 29 November 2023 — 30 June 2024.
Digital Arts Blog | Artist Spotlight: Connie Bakshi. Interview with Cansu Peker. 02 November 2023.
VoyageLA | Meet Connie Bakshi. 02 October 2023.
OUTLAND | Studio Visit: Connie Bakshi. Interview with Wade Wallerstein. 24 July 2023.
EYEBEAM FOLD | “Algorithmic Imaginaries x Xenospaces.” Panel with Peter Wu+, Libby Heaney, Lawrence Lek, Connie Bakshi, moderated by Nora N. Khan. 15 June 2023. Online.
Out of Sight Into Mind. SENSE ArtFair x MODA Labs. Los Angeles, CA. 24 March 2023.
AAPI Artist Showcase. GoldenDAO x Outer Edge LA. Los Angeles, CA. 20 March 2023.
Xenospace. EPOCH Gallery. Online. 11 February — 12 May 2023.
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