Core Artist - Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith  DE

Core Artist - Beau Coleman  CDN

Photo Credit: Brittany Snellen, 2020

Performance: Breath, 2020

My interdisciplinary art practice encompasses the mediums of performance art, live art, interdisciplinary creation, theatre, site-specific and participatory practices, dance, video and installation.

I have made works for a diverse range of locations and contexts; whether situated in galleries, theatres, suspended over rivers or projected onto buildings.

Themes of isolation, intimacy, grief and loss are interrogated in my work, as I seek to blur the boundaries between the various art disciplines through artistic research and creation.

_______________________________________________________________________________

Core Artist - Hector Canonge  US

Photo: Hardev Singh 2018

Performance: Awakening, Chandighar, 2018

My Performance Art work centers around the (re)construction of memory based on sensorial experiences that trigger (re)actions and create relations that serve as a bridge between the past, present, and a possible future. In addition, my online performances explore the experience of tele-presence experimenting with aural projections through remote communications technologies.

Coming of age in diverse neighborhoods in New York City allowed me to experience cultural traits, traditions, and values of various migrant populations living in the United States. It also provided me with a sense of worldliness despite the self-confinement that limited my travels outside my adopted home country.

These experiences have influenced the interdisciplinary work I’ve been doing since 2004.

In the same manner, in many of my performance art projects, I revisit early memories of life in South America that take me back to Argentina, where I was born, and Bolivia, where I lived as a child with my grandparents.

My work investigates the constant transformation of the individual, the man, the foreigner, and how the experience transforms his position in today’s society. My interdisciplinary body of work addresses issues that pertain to the presence of ethnic communities in urban spheres and their transformation: assimilation and/or integration.

Through performance art, public interventions, and socially engaged projects in various communities in New York and in other cities where I had the opportunity to work in (Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Berlin, Marseille, Bilbao, Athens, Lisbon, Rome, to name a few) I have been able to produce projects whose messages touch on the human condition.

__________________________________________________________________________

Core Artist - Dimple Shah IND

Photo: Dev Hardev, 2018

Performance:  A Labrotary for Survival 2020

Catharsis, Healing, & Extraction of Pure Self are key elements in my works, through various approaches which is Ephemeral, Spontaneous & Interactive in Nature.

Key areas of my concerns have been Humanitarian, related to Migration, Women’s issues, and Socio-Ecological aspects.

All this thoughts goes in the process of Distillation relating to concerned issues.

Collecting the sources to finally extracting purified element out of it.

My work can be summoned up with these Processes metaphorically can be applied to all areas of concerns addressed in works like socio-political, Ecological, and Existential questions.

I work in several mediums of expressions with core issues based on humanitarian concerns, justice and emotive responses grown out of socio-political, issues of women safety and environmental concerns.

_________________________________________________________________________

Core Artist - Satadru Sovan  IND

Photo: Adriana Balderama

Performance art is also referred to as behaviour art and it is unique. It doesn't fit neatly into theatre, dance, music or visual art.

It's temporal and ephemeral; and utilises the body as a medium to convey its intended message.

Most artists have a tumultuous blow hot - blow cold relationship with performance art that they don't have with other media they work in.

It tends to be a long term break up and make up affair.

So here it is : this time-based action by an artist and a visceral narrative through the body.

Because all performance art happens when the artist’s own body and presence becomes part of the work.

And then there is the audience ! The artist yearns to be witnessed by this group of people - all present in one ephemeral space.

Performance art is true intimacy.

____________________________________________________________________________

Core Artist - Mukesh Singh  IND

Photo: Vikas Bharti 2020

He believes:

There is many layers of ideas emotions and stories in artists mind while making art works!

But still the act of Art work becomes the content of the work, so the action reflects the emotions held by the artist while creating the Visuals...

His art work is about Human emotions: Tragedy, Ecstasy, Doom, Love, Joy and including the feeling of isolation in a limitless world...

______________________________________________________________________________

Core Artist - Rajesh Trilokya  IND

My works are based on the nature and plastic.

I am doing performances on this subject.

My performance are the narratives from my visual artworks.

Apart from this subject I use hair as a metaphor and using my body in the performances on how human has evolve the over the period of time.

_____________________________________________________________________________

Core Artist - Anupam Saikia IND

Photo: Fatema 2017

Performance: Crack, 2017, Bangladesh

We can’t imagine, whole performance before doing it; interventions happened to bring challenges and performance takes a new way.

Like the audience intervenes in the work, the artist started the performance by intervening in space.

Meanwhile, it is always in process, where my practice is always focused on body, space, and element through time and context.

Performance has been understood as ephemeral, fragile, be present, baring affective excess, having transformative power, identified as disappearance.

The areas of my work are contextually embodied where identical, cultural and political chaos is happening constantly. These chaoses or conflicts created a camouflage of fear and violence

in psychology.

The coexistence of fear and violence in our everyday public, personal and

private spaces lead to the regimentation and disciplining of everyday work conditions.

In my perception, these fear and violence fabricated silence in our psyche embodied a frame of

isolation.

Everybody lives within a frame that’s created by us as well as by social or political structure. There is no way out of this frame.

My purpose is to explore the binary of psychological violence and realty through the process of my practice and bring forward the subconscious terror and conscious artistry in the same

platform.

The visuals or images of my work and performances I have made so far tried to

explore the nature of fear, violence, Silence, Delusional psyche.'

_____________________________________________________________________________

Core Artist - Inder Salim IND

Action Photo: Abhimanyu Kumar 2020



HARKAT, a word in Indian vernacular, I introduced in 2010 as alternative sound to test how  Performance Art engages the global at local.

Here , the term Harkat, is hovering around like a ghost  without any serious assertion to make a business like transaction. Performance art too,  as I believe,  is operating at global level without any serious assertion to make a business like transaction.

Naked empirical/material might  announce  a hierarchy  of the epistemological , but it is perhaps the ghost which is  the key to enter the ritual , the liminal , the actual  and the ethical of the interruption. Pathognomy of performance  , though ,  antonymous to Physiognomy, excludes none.

PA ( Performance Art) is 'this' of ‘thisness’ akin to “representation of representation” as in Las Meninas. PA thrives on breaches and seepages of all disciplines with a simultaneity of providing missing strings to connect the varied. 

As Deleuze articulates, “Art provides  the synthesis of philosophical structures “,

PA , as an ambiguous limb of Art , limpingly, translates  itself into a strange locomotive which is composite of  a soul, a machine,  a togetherness for a sudden playfulness…