Curated by Atul Kumar
Walk Back to Look is a performative response to the rhythm of the public site, by offering a counter beat—be it a crowded bus stand or a chaotic vegetable market. The temptation to look back, at an intriguing stranger or a luscious piece of fruit constantly exists, in these spaces. Yet, few walk back to take a closer look, at a person deep in slumber or that effervescent vegetable seller chanting, “ come buy, come buy”.
Curated by Atul Kumar
Fermented Frontier is a series of performance walks that originate in a bookshop/library, spill over to the streets and congregate over tea/coffee. An interactive installation of the sounds, dramatic texts, visuals and movements of conversations in multiple languages – from the performance walks – starts to grow in different spaces spread over many geographies. It takes off from the sci-fi plot of alien invasions and the ensuing siege, surveillance, and survival. Any sci-fi plot with aliens in human forms is about how the concept of reality and normalcy in relation to other things changes.
Curated By Meenakshi Thirukode in collaboration with Asia Art Archive
Founders, Kwak and Astorga will perform a few concerts as Xina Xurner, an experimental musical act that blends hardcore, industrial, drone metal, techno-opera and bad drag to create a unique dance floor sensation.
Curated By Meenakshi Thirukode in collaboration with Asia Art Archive
Founders Kwak and Astorga describe Mutant Salon as a ‘roving platform for collaborative performance and community-building that strives to foster connections between queer, trans, POC, womyn and mutant communities… in the act of self-care’. At Serendipity, Mutant Salon will offer haircuts, makeup, nail care, and bodywork to visitors (on a first come first served basis) within a site-specific installation that also includes zines and videos.
Curated By Meenakshi Thirukode in collaboration with Asia Art Archive
Unlearning Lessons from my Father is a poetic response to questions around archiving. From within a political and cultural temporality that does not ‘archive’ to record, what would a ‘looking back at’ entail? Mani looks to his own personal biography and its connection to the history of colonisation; particularly at the forced migration of trees and plants which include cashew, pineapple, rubber and tapioca. Mani claims his father and brother sold cashews to the nearest state border in order to make money to send the children to school while his parents were rubber tappers working at various plantations in Kerala. Mani therefore weaves a narrative that connects colonial and material histories of these fruits and plants to the personal histories connected to indigenous lands, bodies and knowledge.
Curated By Meenakshi Thirukode in collaboration with Asia Art Archive
siren eun young jung’s Anomalous Fantasy questions official history by putting into conversation the experiences of a young actress as she discovers the all-female musical theatre tradition in Korea known as Yeoseong Gukgeuk. This genre, which had its heyday in the latter half of the twentieth century, takes on a new life by musically staging contemporary experiences of members of India’s only LGBTQ choir, Rainbow Voices, based in Mumbai
Curated by Siddhant Shah
Senses 3.0 is programmed with workshops for the differently abled, including sensitisation workshops for our able-bodied audiences.
Curated by Meenakshi Thirukode in collaboration with Asia Art Archive
River Lin offers a reflection on cycles of waking and sleeping, presence and absence, transience, and labor in his durational performance Sleeping in between Tehching Hsieh and On Kawara. As the title suggests, the piece also gives a sly nod to two artistic forebears “from” Asia, Tehching Hsieh and On Kawara, whose work have also taken the marking of the passage of time as one of their prime tasks.
Curated By Sabeena Gadihoke
Still/Moving is a curated package of non-fiction films that attempts to enable a dialogue between pre-existing material and images created by the filmmaker. Deploying archival images and found footage, the films in the package wrestle with questions of erasure, silence or loss. Memory is central to almost all the films. In some, memory collides with history while in others it explores the incertitude that lies between the two
Curated by Sabeena Gadihoke
Still/Moving is a curated package of non-fiction films that focuses on a dialogue between pre-existing material and images in the making. All the films use archival and found footage in the form of still and moving images to explore questions of erasure, silence and loss. Some interrogate history and memory and the unstable space that lies between. While in others official histories and memories collide. Yet other films explore the themes of race and identity, migration and displacement. Combining fragments of personal, vernacular and official accounts of events they interrogate the truth claims made by images. In a moment marked by convergence, these documentaries celebrate the hybrid form and fluid boundaries between cinema and photography. As ruminations on ‘stillness’ and movement they pay homage to the photograph and its expanded role within the moving image.
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