Most video produced today isn't meant to be seen—at least not by the eyes of a person. Whether shot by a surveillance camera, a driverless car, a drone, or a doorbell, this video without viewers could be considered alongside a set of intentional (one could say, artistic) techniques of filmmaking that in another era came to be known as structuralist.

Meanwhile, thousands of hours of archival footage sits on servers, indexed but unwatched. What might a structuralist approach mean today, when the structure of the moving image extends so far beyond the visual?

The artist Nikhil Vettukattil makes work for and against a culture attuned to such a surfeit of information. Tending toward the durationlessness, Nikhil's work—across moving image, sound, performance, photography, and sculpture—creates clashes out the field of cultural production, as dissonant historical, political, and mass cultural moments are brought to bear upon each other, and on the present.

Focusing on perspectives from outside of the Anglo-American imperialist axis that came to define structuralism in its nascent form, this evening-length screening presents a set of historical and contemporary works in film and video that explore the limits of the forms and conditions of image making today.

Nikhil Vettukattil (b. 1990, Bengaluru, IN) is an artist living and working in Oslo. Using a range of media such as sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture and video, their practice questions modes of representation and image-making processes in their relation to lived experiences. They are part of The Institute for Scene Experiments, a parafictional institution that reflects on the film crew as a social form, exploring alternative modes of production and working conditions. Recent solo exhibitions include DECADE, AGIT, Berlin (2025) and Defund the Police, Arcadia Missa, London (2024). Forthcoming exhibitions include Four Dilations, MoMA PS1, New York, US and Figures of Fascism and Anti-Fascist Solidarity, Kaaitheater, Brussels, BE.

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