Shubigi Rao
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  • WORKS (2013-2018)
    • 2018. The Wood for the Trees
    • 2017. Written in the Margins
    • 2013. The Retrospectacle of S. Raoul
    • 2013. Useful Fictions
    • OLDER WORKS >
      • 2017 >
        • Every Cabinet is a Library, from the 3rd Pune Biennale
      • 2016 >
        • works from Ghost on the Wire 2
      • 2015 >
        • works from Dear Painter
        • Objects Best Shown to a Stranger
      • 2014 >
        • Visual Snow
      • 2013 >
        • Stabbing at Immortality: Building a Better Jellyfish
        • Blotting the Ledger
      • 2008 >
        • The Tuning Fork of the Mind
        • The River of Ink
  • BOOKS (2006-2017)
    • Pulp Vol. III 2022
    • Pulp: Vol II 2018
    • Pulp: Vol I. 2016
    • Written in the Margins 2017
    • Useful Fictions. 2014
    • History's Malcontents. 2013
    • 4 Pillars: Books from the Echolocation project. 2007-2008
    • No Cover, No Colour. 2006
    • Bastardising Biography: An Extraordinary Initiative. 2006

The Tuning Fork of the Mind, commissioned by Singapore Biennale 2008
Installation
2008
shown at Wonder, the second Singapore Biennale, 2008
and at Entering the Mind's I, at the Conference of the Organisation of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Beijing,   China, 2012

The Tuning Fork of the Mind is a multi-layered installation that deals with a pseudo-scientific theory of brainwave activity that occurs when an unwary viewer encounters art. I developed this theory to chart the collisions between the Viewer and Art, and to prove how the mental gymnastics and cognitive leaps required to comprehend the Art Object generate vibrations at frequencies calculated to specifically, and with singular malicious focus, derange the brain.

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