The City Gallery, Leicester presents 'Sine Language' the new work by visual artist Hetain Patel and musician and beat boxer Jason Singh, between 20 January and 24 February 2007. Singh and Patel’s Sine Language is a new site-specific installation work that looks at how they can locate a sense of displaced Indian heritage within themselves through sound and physical interaction.

Developed from a collaborative partnership between Patel, the visual artist and Jason Singh, musician and DJ, Sine Language examines how cultural dialogue can emerge from the complex rhythms of drumming, the movement of performed actions and the environmental noise of a gallery space.

Hetain Patel, who won a Decibel award in 2005, has previously explored the physicality of cultural expression by marking his skin to self-tattoo and photographing the results. He then started to learn tabla drumming, a traditional Indian form of music which is governed by the specific time cycles of all Indian classical music. His recent works including the DVD diptych Kehrwa Boxing experiment with the idea of instilling a sense of Indian-ness through the physical action of drumming to the rules of these time cycles.

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