Meanings of Failed Action: Insurrection 1946 comprises a 40-feet-long aluminium and steel structure inside which an 8-channel audio work will play. Pics/Gireesh GV

Some 45 of us are huddled along the sides of a ship. Sirens wail, a beam of light scans the walls. To the tune of Morse code, a voice asks for the telegraph operators and seamen with the Royal Indian Navy to strike. The Empire will go dead silent in half an hour.