Lala Rukh's Life and Legacy: A Panel Discussion
Object, each: 162 × 215 mm Animated film duration: 6min, 12sec © Estate of Lala Rukh and Grey Noise, Dubai Rupak 2016 is the last major work made by the Pakistani artist Lala Rukh (1947–2017). It consists of an animation and eighty-eight drawings, combining sound, movement and calligraphy to visually synthesise a taal, a seven-beat musical cycle played on the tabla, a pair of small hand drums. The work is currently on show at Tate Modern as one of eight pieces in Performer and Participant, a display of artworks thematising political participation by artists working between the 1960s an...