Collaborating since 2004 as Desire Machine Collective, Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya employ film, video, photography, and multimedia installation in their works. The space and its activities also provide a connective platform for dialogue across artistic, scientific, technological, and ecological modes of production and knowledge. As an extension of Periferry, in 2011 the artists introduced A+type, an artist residency program situated in the city of Guwahati itself. Desire Machine Collective have presented their work in a number of group exhibitions including, Everyone Agrees: It’s About to Explode at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, India Pavilion, Venice (2011); Indian Highway IV, MAC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon and Indian Highway V, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome (2011) and Being Singular Plural, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin (2010). Their recent exhibitions are, Being Singular Plural, at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum New York (2012), Intense Proximity, the 3rd edition of the La Triennale at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, curated by Okwui Enwezor (2012) and Experimenta India: London Indian Film Festival at the Tate Modern London (2012). Walking Drifting Dragging, New Museum, (2013), [UN]NATURAL LIMITS at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (2013).

WORK

Nishan I
by Desire Machine Collective
4 channel colour video installation with 4 channel
Video still
2007 - 201

Residue
by Desire Machine Collective
35mm colour film with sound
Video still
2011

Trespassers will (not) be prosecuted
by Desire Machine Collective
Multi channel sound installation
2008

ESSAYS

Desiring Machines

by Sandhini Poddar

Sonal Jain (b. 1975, Shillong) and Mriganka Madhukaillya (b. 1978, Jorhat, Assam) have been collaborating as Desire Machine Collective on films, video and sound installations, as well as residency programmes and interdisciplinary projects since 2004. After the Gujarat riots in 2002, which began with

Residues of the future/ Peripheries of the world - Some reflections on the Desire Machine Collective

by Kaushik Bhaumik

Interacting with the agendas of Desire Machine Collective is like taking a walk through Professor Canterel’s estate in Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus. Fabricating edible solar cells go hand in hand with music and dance on a ferry on the Brahmaputra along with capturing sounds from sacred groves

Desire Machine Collective

Desiring Machines

Residues of the future/ Peripheries of the world - Some reflections on the Desire Machine Collective

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