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2025 | New Forms Media Society

Kaila Bhullar


Audiovisual Installation



Between Signals
2025 / Multichannel Sound + Video Installation

Betweenprevious installations, the work deepens into a stranger terrain – where the boundaries between the physical and digital, the natural and the technological, blur and recombine.

The audio composition layers experimental noise and drone textures with fragments of field recordings and processed signals, enveloping the listener in shifting sonic architectures. Simultaneously, the projections unfold in complex, overlapping patterns of image and texture, merging natural imagery with digital manipulations, gestures of the body with algorithmic distortions.

By surrounding the viewer in both sight and sound, Between Signals evokes a sense of wonder and disorientation, inviting audiences to inhabit the liminal space where organic and synthetic realities intertwine. The work resists linear narrative, instead offering an open field of perception – an environment to wander, drift, and dissolve into the entanglement of body, machine, and world.

Artist Bio


Kaila Bhullar (She/They) is a queer Indo-Chilean experimental filmmaker + multimedia artist based in the stolen territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh tribes. Working in video, sound, and installation, Bhullar’s practice is rooted in a distinct visual language that merges glitch, analogue textures, and fragmentation to evoke a sense of disorientation and layered perception. Their work navigates the existential and political dimensions of image-making, often manifesting as abstract, digitally manipulated collages of varying forms that interrogate identity, technology, and the instability of meaning. Using a chaotically layered style that blends analogue textures with digital manipulation, Bhullar constructs immersive, sensorial worlds that blur the boundaries between the real and the simulated.


Their work moves between the forms of experimental film/video and performances, audiovisual pieces, multimedia installations, and other digital forms — while more recently expanding into the realms of independent curation and live performance/VJ. Recent showings of their work include Lobe Studio, The Polygon Gallery, Active/Passive, Queer Arts Festival, XINEMA, Acceleration Radio, What Lab, Centre A, Gallery Gachet, UNIT/PITT, Red Gate, The Cobalt, and The Small File Media Festival.


SCHEDULE


A/V Gallery

October 22-25

OCT 22
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6 PM - 9 PM

4 PM - 9 PM

12 PM - 4 PM

Gallery opening featuring artist talks presented by ephemeral objectsA/V Gallery Hours
free / by donation
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