Submergence, Narmada River, India
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Submergence draws on hydrophone recordings from the Narmada River in North India. It forms part of the score for ZAMEEN, a contemporary dance and multimedia work that pulls you into the heart of a remote Indian community fighting for their way of life. An immersive audiovisual environment – built entirely out of recordings done on site with the community itself – sustains the show, pitching you from the very start in the midst of their song and struggle to secure land in the face of large scale dam development. To date over 30 million people have been internally displaced by the Narmada Dams and the resulting Indigenous activist movement – the Narmada Bachao Andolan – has become one of the most successful and sophisticated in contemporary history.
