The Builders Association/motiroti's
Alladeen Bangalore–London–New York
The Alladeen project encompasses three collaborative works: this web
project, www.alladeen.com (directed by Ali Zaidi); a cross-media stage performance
(directed by Marianne Weems); and a music video (directed by Ali Zaidi), featuring
music by Shrikanth Sriram (Shri) and video by Peter Norrman. Although distinct,
these three works have been created in tandem, drawing on
a common pool of imagery and information, with material from each interwoven
into the others.
As a whole, the Alladeen project explores how we all function as "global
souls" caught up in circuits of technology, how our voices and images travel
from one culture to another, and the ways in which these cultures continually
reinterpret each other's signs and stories.
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