Havaa tum, ghul jaana, kho jaana, mil jaana Lecture and Artist Talk
This artist talk is centered around the creation of the project, exploring themes of wind ecology, anti-colonial methodologies, embodied field research and relational ontology.
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This project explores the artist’s developing relationship with wind, as a presence, a spirit, a teacher, and a vital part of the ecosystem in the southwest. The artist is asking, "How can attuning ourselves to sonic and other patterns and teachings of wind allow a recontextualization of how to unlearn colonial constructs and ways of understanding and being in the world?"
What does un/silence(ing) in relation to place sound and feel like? The work often draws from natural elements, movement, and ephemeral states—highlighting how we exist in constant exchange with the world around us. Through the sculpture, titled असथा (asthayitva), in the habitat field, they are inviting the audience to re-orient themselves physically to patterns of sound and movement of birds, grasses, seeds and insects, inviting attention to the underlooked, the hidden, the forgotten, as an act of radical ecological tenderness and care.
Through the performance, which is centered around an ecological score for noisemaking and movement, there is a focus on collective meaning making and deeper engagement with place, allowing space for stories of the landscape and embodied ancestral knowledge to unravel.
During the artist talk, the audience can expect an intimate conversation that weaves the conceptual framework of the project including themes of belonging, identity, ecology and performance with process and research the centers the graphic score, sensory experience, liminal spaces, ephemerality and ethics of material use.
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