“My stories, my way of expressing always comes in these very strong images. And then I always think of, what would it make the other person feel? More than think, what would it make the other person feel? Is it a kind of precarity? Is it nostalgia? Is it missing?... What it means to not be in a place you're so familiar with which is home – I think that is something very personal. And then in a choice of stories, when I find something which plays on this personal aspect, then I pursue that.” 

Visual artist Meghna Singh, whose immersive environments draw on video and installation, documentary and fiction, invites us into three such installation-based works – Arrested Motion, The Rusting Diamond and the 180-degree virtual reality film, Container – which foreground her academic and personal interests in oceanic flows of trade, labour and migration; abandoned spaces and lives; historical and contemporary servitude, and the meaning of home. 

The ICA Podcast is a creation of the Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) at the University of Cape Town. Produced and edited by Catherine Boulle.

Read more about the ICA and the vision for the podcast: http://www.ica.uct.ac.za/ica/podcast/abouttheicapodcast.