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A multi-panel video-conference collage shows several remote satsang groups on a large screen. Top left, a room with orange drapes and deity pictures has a sign reading OKLAHOMA SOMNATHAM, with people seated on the carpet and a woman in a light sari with folded hands. Top right, a living room with bookshelves shows seated people on sofas. Middle left, a woman in white beside a deity shrine has a sign reading MILL VALLEY, with a brass puja plate. Middle centre, a woman in green and a man in a dark vest with a rudraksha-style mala sit before a fruit and flower offering labelled CHARLOTTE SEARCHLIGHT. Middle right, a pink-floored hall has a sign reading GUADELOUPE with a seated person. Bottom left, people in white sit on a rug labelled VANCOUVER PURI. Bottom centre, a woman in a green-and-white sari with a dark bindi gestures in a shrine. Bottom right, a person in orange watches an ornate shrine with a lit tiered brass lamp. The collage itself contains no physical people.

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April 16 20122012-04-16July 10 20122012-07-10April 16 20122012-04-16 +1 copiesA grid of nine video-feed panels from a multi-location satsang or puja broadcast, shown on a screen. Top-left panel labelled Oklahoma Somnatham shows a woman in pink sitting on a red mat before a shrine with deity murtis and orange drapery. Top-middle panel labelled Houston Kalahasthi shows two men seated on cushions in a living room with a sofa. Top-right panel labelled Ohio shows several seated devotees in front of a shrine. Middle-left panel labelled Los Angeles shows a woman in an orange-pink sari near seated devotees. Middle panel labelled Vancouver BC shows a woman in white at a small shrine. Middle-right panel labelled Toronto Kailasam shows men in white and orange robes seated on mats. Bottom-left panel labelled Seattle Chidambaram shows a man in white kneeling before offerings on a carpet. Bottom-middle panel labelled Guadeloupe Rameswaram shows a seated man reading near a shrine. Bottom-right panel shows a framed portrait labelled as Nithyananda Paramashivam wearing an orange turban, set on an ornate golden chair.2013-10-02October 31 20132013-10-31 +1 copiesMay 08 20132013-05-08June 22 20122012-06-22 +1 copiesPhoto 11737704June 06 20122012-06-06 +1 copiesNovember 16 20132013-11-16 +1 copiesA photograph of a large monitor displaying a multi-panel collage of video stills from temple and ashram gatherings. Several panels show groups of people seated on floors and mats before decorated altars with deity murtis, garlands and flowers. A bottom-centre panel shows a bare-chested man with a white tilak, rudraksha-style garland and a red-patterned backdrop, and a right-hand panel shows a figure in saffron robes seated among offerings. Some panels carry printed city-name signs such as Seattle, Oklahoma Sonnetham and San Jose Madurai. The collage content is screen imagery, so no physical people are counted in the room beyond the handful of people in the scene behind the monitor.2012-09-26A photograph of a video wall grid showing many simultaneous live connections to KAILASA centres, each tile captioned with a centre name such as HOUSTON KALAHASTHI, Toronto Kailasam, SEATTLE CHIDAMBARAM, Oklahoma Somnatham, NITHYANANDA NAGARAM - HYDERABAD, CHARLOTTE-SRISAILAM, Los Angeles Arunachala and PARIS HOME TEMPLE. Participants sit on mats and cushions in saffron, white, pink and purple clothing, some near altars with flowers and deity images. The bottom-right tile shows a man in saffron robes with a rudraksha mala and a long braid, seated before an ornate golden backdrop, appearing to lead the session. Other tiles show seated groups in meditation or yoga poses.2013-04-14