This event acknowledged virtual fatigue, inviting an intimate and inseparable engagement with two voices and the filmic substance as a contact zone that unravels as rumor, testimonial fragment and riddle.
The ‘essay conversation’, Circumstantial Images: Everything is Rumor between curator and writer Natasha Ginwala and the artist, was followed by a discursive intervention by curator Sabih Ahmed— both long-time interlocutors of her practice. Formally plotted as an experience on the intersection of a listening session, an essay film, a podcast, and a live conversation the participants took the show at project88 as a point of departure to delve into the larger weave of ideas informing Paul’s practice over the years.
Watch the entire video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np2peYYaWBc