Littoral States of Being

curator

Preethi Athreya

Commissioned by Serendipity Arts Foundation for Serendipity Arts Festival 2024

In a coming together of earth, water, wind, fire and sky, a forest of bamboo poles greets the onlooker with strange creatures and forms fluttering atop, some from the sea, and some from places unknown to the conscious mind. Weaving through this maze is a masked human form that measures time and space in a seamless meeting of body, matter, and movement.

Conceptualised as part of The Labour and Leisure Chronicles.

The Labour and Leisure Chronicles sets out to map the dynamics of chosen public sites in the city of Panjim by introducing performative interactions in response to their characteristics. It places at the forefront the idea of space as a changing phenomenon, defined not only by geographical terrain or architectural detail, but also by the actions it witnesses. In four distinct propositions, The Labour and Leisure Chronicles capture the overlap between functional life and the play of leisure.

CREDITS:

Artists:

Siva Murugan

Agung Gangwan

Visual and Technical Design:

Pravin Kannanur

About the artists:

Coming from a family of traditional folk dramatists, Siva Murugan draws his audience into dreamscapes by using a single mesmeric, symbolic object.

Indonesia-based Agung Gunawan is a dancer, an artistic director, a choreographer and a vocalist, investigating the ever-changing boundaries and universal hallmarks of traditional, classical and contemporary Javanese arts and culture.

Founding member of the Tamil theatre company, Magic Lantern, and the art collective Basement 21, Pravin Kannanur is a multidisciplinary artist, working predominantly in the visual arts, theatre and contemporary dance.