Curated by Arundhati Nag
Dinner is at 8’ uses steel utensils as its central object of play. While steel utensils work as a sensory medium through the play of sight and sound for the very young audiences, they also metaphorically allow the creators of the play, to think through the concept of the “everyday.”
Curated by Atul Kumar
At SAF this year, apart from the established and more formal theatre venues, we wish to bring theatre into the homes of individuals who are as passionate about this art form as the artist themselves. We want to bring these works to an intimate environment, where the informality and warmth of a lived space lends its own distinctive character and experiential qualities to the performance. These performances will take place for small audiences through October and November, with the following production to take place during the Festival in December.
Curated by Arundhati Nag
This performance with puppets, masks, shadow puppets and materials looks at the Mahabharata as a dynamic narrative which has evolved over a few thousand years through the sung verses of Togalu Gombeyatta’s Sillakeyata Mahabharta and remains relevant in the new search of contemporary puppeteers.
Curated by Atul Kumar
This play is inspired by the stories of Daniil Kharms (1905-1942), an early Soviet era absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. Kharms was often incarcerated by the Stalinist regime for his unconventional and rebellious ways. He is said to have starved to an anonymous death in the psychiatric ward of a Soviet hospital after being arrested in 1942.
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
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