What memories do our bodies hold? What can our bodies tell us about ourselves, our pasts and our futures? Curators, artists, and cultural practitioners explore identities, belonging and embodied memories through diasporic, decolonial and queer perspectives. A research, archiving, exhibition and performance project involving 70+ people.
Curators, artists, and cultural practitioners explore identities, belonging and embodied memories through diasporic, decolonial and queer perspectives. A research, archiving, exhibition and performance project involving 40+ people. The outcomes, encounters and queries which have come out of the projects have been be presented and celebrated during the EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL from 8th – 18th April.
“It is within the intersections of body memory and history that our bodies are potentially at their most revealing. Memories interrupt history and open up another possibility of embodied living, one that spatialises time and temporalises space. Hence, treating the body as memory and discussing the role of the body in witnessing authoritarian capitalism, memorialising the torture carried out by dominant socio-political structures, thus resisting the narrative erasure reproduced by the imperialism at national and global levels.
curatorial focus EMBODIED TEMPORALITIES offered a community-centered approach as a framework for participants to voice their experiences of ancestry, rituals, trauma, death, loss, and finding expression for experiences that are otherwise un-shareable, and often stigmatised in mainstream public discourses while paving the way for collective healing.” - Madhumita Nandi, Artistic Direction
What memories do our bodies hold? What can our bodies tell us about ourselves, pasts, and futures? Through Embodied Temporalities – Tracing the memories our bodies hold, the core artistic work of this Perform Europe project, cultural practitioners explore identities, belonging and embodied memories through diasporic, decolonial and queer perspectives. Embodied Temporalities is a research, archiving, exhibition and performance project under the artistic direction of Madhumita Nandi.
Embodied Temporalities includes two touring projects by the following lead artists:
The touring of Embodied Temporalities is realised in partnership with SHOUT Festival, Liv’in Festival, Play Perform Learn Grow and Live Green.
CREDITS
Artistic Direction: Madhumita Nandi
Curation & Production Assistant: Dami Choi
Video & Stream Production: arjunraj
Communication: Helen Gimber
Production: Oyoun Team
Curators / Artists / Performers / Participants:
Exocé Oob Kasongo, Dr. Maiada Aboud, Sujatro Ghosh, Sana Rizvi, Nane Kahle, Kopano Maroga, Gugulethu Duma aka Dumama, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Kerim Malik Becker, Cornelia Becker, Avril Stormy Unger, Ahmad BaBa, Sailesh Naidu, Suelen Calonga, Indrani Ashe, Yin Cheng-Kokott, KooChaa, Jessica Korp, Thokozani Heidi Sincuba, Maneo Refiloe Mohale, Pure, Antonia Führ, Christina Gabriela Galli, Maria Trinks , Uli Pilwax, Fadi Saleh, Farah Deen, Karin Cheng, Fatmanur Sahin, Carolin Spille, Mansur Ajang, Puangsoi Aksornsawang, Ekta Mittal, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn, Anastasiya Miroshnichenko, Sourav Das Madonna Adib, Sonal Giani, Prashansa Gurung, Nabi A., Mandeep Praikhy, Paro, Ibrahima Ndiaye, Souleyman, Astan Meyer, K‘boko, Cérise C. Carson, Lalson Nghaite, Arijit Bhattacharyya, Sudeshna Saha Roy, Bernd Lützeler, Klaus Schmitz, Sanjay Ramachandran, Debolina Chatterjee, Sutantro Ghosh, Dinesh Pushpavanam, Angana Moitra, Deep Ray, Ankur Dutta, Aju John, Anagh Mukherjee, Joydeep de, Christopher Ramos, Nawal Ali, Aparajita Ghosh, Daria Chesnokova, Pragya Debnath, Suchetana Dutta, Lee Jong Hun, Chris Glass, Samirah Siddiqui, Ans Farhat, Gerrard, Angana Moitra, Niyati Matata, Azeez, Julia Behrens, Amr Hassan, Li Cheng, Anshuman Dwivedi, Utsav Dheeraj, Aamir Aziz, Eshna Kutty, Anoushka Kazi Rehman, Siddhesh Gautam, Maham Shahid Khan, Vasundhara Srivastava, Kalpna Puppet Theatre, Subham Mukherjee, Mahir Duman, Ghazal Ramzani, Ishwari Basu, Aindrila Mitra, Abhimanyu Prathap, Osama Anwar, Antje Weitzel, Likhita Banerjee, Ashutosh Banerjee, Mihir Sharma, Britta Ohm, Raunak Agarwal, Baldeep Kaur, Nilasish Chaudhuri, Sayan Paul, Prinzenallee 58 eG, Land Salzburg, Brut Wien.