A mixed media collaboration with senior textile artists Bernadette Watt and Annabell Amagula from Anindilyakwa Arts, Groote Eylandt and video artist Naina Sen. Single channel installation film projected on bush dyed silk. Nominated for the NATSIAA (National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award) New Media Award in 2018.
Created in partnership with Anindilyakwa Arts.
In 2021, Naina created two large scale site specific public video works that were projected onto Darwin’s Water Towers as part of the NT Travelling Film Festival and the Darwin Street Art Festival.
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Senior textile artists JOY GARLBIN & JOSEPHINE JAMES (BÁBBARRA WOMEN’S CENTRE) collaborated with video artist Naina Sen to create a large scale public projection, projected on the Nightcliff Water Tower in Darwin as part of the Water Tower Series, commissioned by the NT Travelling Film Festival in 2021.
VORTEX
Vortex is a large scale public art participatory video work.
A site specific work work using film, paint and oil, it was projected onto Darwin’s Water Towers as part of the Darwin Street Art Festival and NT Travelling Film Festival.
An accompanying playlist of music was created with the work that audiences downloaded and listened to on personal headphones whilst experiencing the work on site
In this work Naina explores the intangible notions of being suspended between time and place.
Borne out of a feeling of acute anguish and sense of loss, this work is a deeply personal expression of the longing and displacement that ebbs and flows, with being indefinitely separated from her family and her sense of home, through the pandemic.
TRANSMUTATION (working title) is a large scale immersive interactive video mapping, dance and sound art Installation work currently in development by four multidisciplinary artists of Indian heritage from Australia and India; Raghav Handa (Choreographer/Dancer), Naina Sen (Video Artist), Farrah Mullah (Sound artist) and Vishal Kumaraswamy (Digital Artist).
Created as a collective response to the horrific 2nd Covid wave in India, the work explores the themes of identity, diaspora, home, the spectrum of individual and collective ‘Indian-ness’, separation, loss and ritual. Drawing on the diverse practices of all 4 artists, the work will be presented as a large scale performance installation using multi channel video art, projection mapping, soundscapes, motion sensor technology and contemporary dance and movement.
Images and Video from a recent Work In Progress showing at Darwin Festival, August 2022. These Images and Video showcase a part of the work with interactive video projections by Naina Sen, Live Sound Score by Farah Mulla and Movement by Raghav Handa.
Transmutation has been supported by Australia Council Of The Arts, Darwin Festival and Serendipity Arts Festival
সুন্দরী (Shundori) is a large scale, multi-screen, multi-channel immersive video installation that deconstructs the Indian Feminine, exploring the intersections of ritual, mythology, sexuality and gender.
A project between India and Australia, the installation is a participatory work created in collaboration with a vast spectrum of Indian identifying women from diverse socio/economic/religious/geographic backgrounds in India as well as the Indian diaspora in Australia.
Shundori is currently in first stage development and has been supported by Asialink, Arts NT and Regional Arts Fund NT
1 of a suite of 26 video projection pieces created for the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir's new two hour choral show, 'Arrkanala Lyilhitjika' that toured Germany in 2015 and has since toured nationally and internationally including sold out performances at the Sydney Opera House, Hamer Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre and the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC
Credits
Director/Editor/Live Projection Operator: Naina Sen
Cinematographer: Chris Phillips
Face to Face interrogates the emotional impact of the simple human act of seeing one another. Indian-born, Darwin-based video artist and documentary filmmaker Naina Sen creates a large scale participatory video work that features 40 Darwin residents in a series of intimate video portraits, looped together and projected onto The Lighthouse every night for the duration of the festival. Explore ideas of place, belonging, memory and evolving identity of Darwin and its people, cultures and connections.
Install Images Darwin Festival 2018
Single channel installation. Collaboration between senior cultural elder/ writer/performer Kolbong Rogers and video artist Naina Sen.
Produced with Ngukurr Arts Centre and Ngukurr Story Projects for ongoing exhibitions.
Screened at Darwin International Film Festival 2018, Northern Territory Travelling Film Festival 2019.
Video Projections accompanying Indigenous choreographer Gary Lang's contemporary dance production 'Mokuy' which premiered at the Garmalang Festival 2014, Darwin. These video pieces were projected on the dancers as well as on fabric behind them.
Multi-screen looped video installation accompanying the ‘Land and Body’ Indigenous art exhibition curated by Warburton Arts Project, Warburton, Western Australia that toured across 13 museums in China in 2013/2014.
Winner 2013 Arts in Asia award.
2 screen video installation exploring portraiture and identity of the residents of Bagot Community, for Bagot Festival, Darwin Festival 2014
Producer/ Co-Director: Kieren Sanderson
Installation Design/ CoDirector/ Editor: Naina Sen
Cinematographer: James Courtney
12 large scale narrative video projection pieces produced for Elcho Island's famous dance ensemble Chooky Dancer’s critically acclaimed new dance show Djuki Mala, 2014. Currently touring nationally and internationally. A few available to view here.
Nominated for Best Regional Touring Production Helpmann Award, 2014
Projection Credits:
Producer: Joshua Bond
Director/Cinematographer/Editor: Naina Sen
Opening footage courtesy: Blue King Brown/Gurrumul/ New Born Productions