Education & Accessibility

How do we understand the Event today when actions extend, multiply, and converge across multiple registers of time, space, screens and bodies all at once? After Event was a  project that explored the politics of performance through history, actions, and forecasts.

Serendipity Arts  Foundation, Asia Art Archive and HH Art Spaces collaborated to present three new platforms that stage performance art across archive building, workshops, and newly commissioned performance artworks.

BODYWORKSHOP, 4 – 12 Sep 2017

BODYWORKSHOP was an eight days long, close-door workshop designed to evoke performance as a means of artistic expression through a series of planned exercises. Through this, an attempt was made to break out of what we understand as the ‘normal’ workings of the body, its automatic responses, and coded behavioural patterns. 

The hope of, and from, this workshop was to unpack ourselves, and peel through the various masks we wear in an attempt to bring us to our core. The workshop used performance and its ability to transform and transcend as a means to get to this core.

The workshop concluded with an open-studio presentation by participants along with public talks by SAT, AAA, HH Art Spaces, and Nikhil Chopra on his Documenta 14 project.

Asia Art Archive (AAA) is an independent non-profit organisation initiated in 2000 in response to the urgent need to document and make accessible the multiple recent histories of art in the region. With one of the most valuable collections of material on art freely available from its website and onsite library, AAA builds tools and communities to collectively expand knowledge through research, residency, and educational programmes.

AAA in India (AAA in I) was established in 2013 reflecting the organisation’s widening scope of activities in India. With an on-site digital collection housed in New Delhi in a space that is open to visitors, AAA in I organises a range of projects, workshops, and programmes with a mission to build archives and instigate dialogue and critical thinking around contemporary art from India. The organization works in partnership with various individuals, organisations and institutions in the field that share AAA’s values

HH Art Spaces is an artist-run residency space established in October 2014 in Siolim, Goa by Romain Loustau, Madhavi Gore and Nikhil Chopra. It is part of a movement of artists from the big cities to Goa, as an environment that offers space, time, an international community and an increasingly critical audience. The program focuses primarily on live art and performance with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary and collaborative work. HH Art Spaces is a place for reflection, inspiration and creation; a place where artists come together, make and share their ideas, processes, experiments and collaborative efforts with one other and the community. Through the overlapping and interweaving of different practices and disciplines there is an inherent desire to create new languages and ways of making and receiving art. Every residency term ends with an OPEN Studio, when the house and gardens are transformed into a public exhibition to connect us with the larger community of Goa. We are currently located in an old Indo-Portuguese house in Arpora, Goa, India

Poster for Bodyworkshop