Place may be read in multiple ways: as related points and networks, and an attempt at a new language of politics, a ‘politics’ of place that may emerge outside of known categories and articulations. This case is an exploration of the experiences of resettlement in Savda Ghevra, a colony near Delhi that was established in 2006, with relation to spatial continuities, the built environment, the life of documents and state categories for resettlement, and public-private schemes and services in the colony.  This case will take the form of annotated videos, photo essays, sound clips, and photo-text assemblages that allow the learner to address and engage with ‘place’.

About the Case Author
Priya Sen works as an artist and filmmaker in New Delhi. Her film ‘About Elsewhere’ as been screened at experimental film festivals including Forum Expanded, Berlinale, Black Lily Music and Film festival, Philadelphia, ‘VideoMix India’ La Casa Encendida, Madrid and Exis Experimental Film & Video festival, Seoul. ‘To Receding’ – a video as part of ‘Steps Away From Oblivion’ curated by Raqs Media Collective has been traveling with ‘Indian Highway’ since 2009.

She was an artist in residence at Gasworks, London, and Nottingham Contemporary, UK, in 2010. She also works as an editor and sound designer, and has been with the Sarai Programme at CSDS since 2005.