1. Yadanar Win Myanmar/France with Andreas Hoffmann Germany
2. Daisuke Takeya Canada/Japan with Dimple B. Shah India
3. Satadru Sovan India with Chanchal Banga Israel/India
4. Rajesh Trilokiya India with Rajni Moon India
5. Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith Germany and Rose Texier France
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New Beginning Lock Unlock Performance Project Episode 23
on Sunday October 1, 2023 with featured guest artists
Priyam Dubey from India , Andreas Hoffmann from Germany, Bandu Manamperi from Sri Lanka and Evamaria Schaller from Germany
Lock Unlock 22 Performance Art Project
Monday 21. 3. 2022 via Zoom and Live Stream
Reference Text by Satadru Sovan:
1 “The silence of the moon & universe aand the quieting of the day,
a-far from the roar of the sun..” 2“Everything is Everyone‘s faults”
Guest Artists
Katya Petetskya AS
Pulak kr Sarkar BG
Abel Sarang Sabarmathi IND
Followed by Zoom Discussion Monday 28. March 2022 with Lock Unlock core artists and guest artists
Reference Text by core artist Inder Salim
What is it ?
Negative Capability entitles us to access the truth without the pressure and framework of logic or science. John Keat’s notion of “negative capability” has been influential for those working outside of aesthetics. “ A Poet is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason” . Negative, here is not in opposition to Positive, and neither ‘ capability ‘ to incapability.
Jean Genet explains in his novel “ Miracle of the Rose “ that he ( the author ), is merely a planner in comparison to the spontaneity of those who suddenly think to break into the house while on stroll. He further adds “ I went to theft as to the liberation as to the light “ . Echoing similar “Artist commits a work of art like a burglar commits crime.” Edgar Degas.
Franz Kafka, The Trial : “The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.”.
Paul Gauguin “ My Muse is half animal “ . Deleuze's ‘desire’ is much wider, referring not only to man, but also to animals, objects and social institutions. In Deleuze's view, desire is not a psychic existence, not lack, but an active and positive reality, an affirmative vital force. Desire has neither object, nor fixed subject. It is like labour in essence, productive and actualisable only through practice. (in one of my dreams, during college days, I happened to be in the company of three absolutely haired female forms who leaned on me )
Anti–space, a term we would not arrive at if ‘Theatre of Cruelty’ was not coined by Antonin Artaud. From his ‘The theatre and its Double’, he eventually arrived at the most revolutionary term ‘Body without organs’ .One keeps moving towards a horizon where becoming is a vessel like form, bereft of the biological ways of looks at body.
“Becoming is antimemory”
Demand for justice. Antigone is a threat to the status quo; she invokes divine law as defense of her actions, but implicit in her position is faith in the discerning power of her individual conscience. She sacrifices her life out of devotion to principles higher than official version of law.
Abhinava Gupt, 950 – 1015 CE, Kashmir. a mystic, saint , poet and philosopher. Author of more than 35 complete works. The legend is that he ultimately entered a mountain cave along with his followers and returned back. I quote “ Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of our daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Nothing ever can be said about it “
Deleuze while explaining “ nothing is outside “ actually demonstrates how there exist no space to stand outside to see the real. At some point of time, he suggests that any witness to this phenomena via our philosophical pursuits are best served if we just forget all of it, which happens inevitably. We are part of it, but what is it ?
Guest Artists
Tatiana Koroleva Canada
Undock : 언덕 South Korea
Carron Little USA
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Lock Unlock 20 Performance Art Project
19.10.2021
Reference Text by core artist Mukesh Singh
Isolation:
Isolating self within self in your world is actually justification and an excuse, because you fear standing up within yourself and moving you and willing you and forcing you to express you as who you really are, because participating in isolation--“I'm so late, I'm so late, it's too late” - that entire construct is a justification and excuse, because it's never too late. You are able to, in any give moment of breath, stand up and direct and move you.
Guest Artists
Gilivanka Kedzior FR
Ruth Vigueras Bravo MX
Boyet de Mesa RP
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Lock Unlock Performance Art Project 20 Zoom Video Stills
Lock Unlock 19 Performance Art Project
22.09.2021
Reference text by core artist Beau Coleman
"“Decay and regeneration are paired processes, where the entropy of one system is used for the organization of another; in a circular ecology, one process cannot exist without the other.
What does it mean after a year such as this, to regenerate one’s practice? What have we left to deteriorate, and what do we use as fodder and fuel for new creation? I ask this in the most literal sense, as the work I make is often designed to actually decay, employing and partnering with other organisms to assist in the process. The scale (temporal and physical) at which decay and regeneration occurs may not always be perceptible to the human eye – geological time and microbial time are challenging to understand – but they are happening nonetheless and the consequences are concrete rather than speculative.”
Andrea Shin Ling (Canadian artist and architect)
I recently came across this quote by Canadian artist and architect Andrea Shin Ling and it echoed in my own work; especially in this ‘virus-time’ we all find ourselves living and creating within. What new growths have emerged in your own artistic practice from the death and decay that surrounds us?
Guest Artists
Isa Fontbona SP
Eliseo Solis Mora VE
Shakti Milan Sharma IN
Followed by Discussion September 28. 2021 with Lock Unlock core artists and guest artists
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Lock Unlock 19 Performance Art Project Video and Video Stills
Lock Unlock 18 Performance Art Project
17.08. 2021
Reference text by core artist Dimple Shah
"Animating Surface Tension - Mind, Body and Spirit"
There are several forces which work in our mind, body and souls. One seldom recognize this. It comes in a different form within the body indirectly through some signal like pain, heaviness. This reflection works out in non-identifiable form for each person. They are psychological-emotional forces. The Psychological tension/emotions reflect in our body in our behaviour and in our everyday activities we perform. Still, we don't understand and recognize it. Through this performance act, one can try to explore tension points within. Try to regulate in a direction that it heals our body/mind and Soul. Artists have an incredible power to animate that is in deep subconscious mind not visible directly. The body mind tensions are a manifestation of emotional refluxes positive and negative form.
Through performance artwork, we can reflect reciprocate through our body performance an Attempt visually animates through our action."
Guest Artists
Aishwarya Sultaania IN
Marisa Núñez Caminos AR
Pratibha Sarkar IN
Followed by Discussion , August 31. 2021 with Lock Unlock core artists and guest artists
Lock Unlock 17 Performance Art Project
20.7. 2021
Reference text by core artist Hector Canonge
SONIC PERFORMATIVITY
Sound in Performance Art
In contrast to former programs where the sound in the simultaneous actions was muted LOCK UNLOCK 17
will focus on exploring the relationship of SOUND in PERFORMANCE ART.
Actions:
- Minimal actions with the body.
- Number of objects to use = 3 (maximum)
- Fixed setting with good lighting.
- Camera cannot be moving around.
- Corporal actions
Sound:
- Along with their actions, participants are asked to use their VOICE as the only INSTRUMENT for the simultaneous performance.
- They can use ONE of the following: Vocalization, Orality, Growling, Humming, La-La-ing, Whispering, and other forms and types of voice modulations.
Guest Artists
Claire Nichols FR/UK
M.U.R.T.A Azul CI
Followed by Discussion 27. July 2021 with Lock Unlock core artists and guest artists
Lock Unlock 16 Performance Art Project
22.6. 2021
Reference text by core artist Anupam Saikia
" Body as abstraction”
A pocket of cloud falls like rain,
Fire turn into ashes,
Resting like a dead stone,
The lie in the abstraction understands the skin.
And skin remembered the touch from the rain.
Guest Artists
Ender Rodriguez VE
Mihama Bayana IND
SM Reyad BG
Followed by Discussion 29. June 2021 with Lock Unlock core artists and guest artists
Lock Unlock 15 Performance Art Project
18.5.2021
Reference text by core artist Inder Salim
"Platonic Reality"
excerpt
"Like Platonic Love, we have a parallel view of the physical world which Mathematician Sir Roger Penrose called Platonic Reality. Mathematics extraordinarily explains the physical world and yet, it is about numbers and abstract signs which are comprehensible to a few privileged. In higher sciences we arrive at a point when physicality of a particle confuses the observer to the extent that the very observer seems to merge with the oscillating nature of the particle under observation. It is exactly here, that Mathematics steps in like a actor to enter the stage , since there is no other way but to showcase a conversation between Hamlet and the Ghost.
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I quote Deleuze “bring something incomprehensible to the world “.
Guest Artists
Dhannjay Kumar IND
Raphael Couto BR
Soufïa Bensaïd TS
Followed by Discussion 25. May 2021 with Lock Unlock core artists and guest artists
Lock Unlock 14 Performance Art Project
20.4.2021
reference text by core artist Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith
" re-charge…"
The action is the process itself/ Performance Art through its nature is the offering of a situation unknown already, and the awareness of idea and its origin. The situation initiates a private dialogue, and public debate of concerns for your participatory emotional state, memories as multiple chains of thought; each action is a pearl on a string, the string which has been created in life in the world.
The re-charge of a moment is the power of individual, momentary presence whether seen or invisibly absent, the congruence of self animates a launch thriving into the fleeting moment: in silence or with noise, in whispers or the highest energy of shouting into the world. Holding breath and charging ‘ anima’.
(from Latin mind, soul) and in C.G.Jungian Psychoanalysis, the feminine part of a man’s personality.
Guest Artists
Ilka Theurich DE
Pascal Ciapp FR
Marilyn Arsem US
Followed by Discussion 27. April 2021 with Lock Unlock core artists and guest artists
Lock Unlock 13 Performance Art Project
23. March 2021
Reference text by core artist Beau Coleman
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In this time of global pandemic, when we find ourselves isolated and often alone, how do we find beauty? Though we may be confined by the restrictions placed upon us and ever still in our movements, growth is still possible if we seek it out. What seeds of life are we able to witness? How do they change us and help us cope? How can we reach beyond our walls of confinement to ‘make contact’ and impact another’s life? In your now ever-strange day-to-day life, what beauty grows before your eyes?
Guest Artists
Javier Seco Goni ESP
B. Ajay Sharma IND
Diniz Sanchez PT
Followed by Discussion 30. March 2021 with Lock Unlock core artists and guest artists
Lock Unlock 12 Performance Art Project
23. February 2021
Reference text by core artist Rajesh Trilokiya “temperature…”
How we feel temperature?
In the last zoom performance discussion, we were talking about temperature. It was 13 degree Celsius in India.
At a different location there is a different temperature.
So, I thought of suggesting it, as this phenomenon.
Guest Artists
Efat Rozowana Reya BGD
Mahmoud Makabi IRN
Cai Qing SGP
Lock Unlock 11 Performance Art Project
22. December 2020
Reference text by core artist Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith
"Glimpses behind Isolation..."
Visual material is assembled, collaged and controlled in these days of presentations via the virtual channels.
The preparations regress to an intense aesthetic and composed image production.
How can this be interrupted and directed towards another perspective, revealing details of ‘Self’ in the intimate sphere, which in any way stays hidden to the unrecognizable (zoom) spectator.
Details, materials and objects which may have been captured before in physical, public space, now have been edited away from the site of Performance Activity.
How does the artist’s expectation level, in these days influence the operating virtual eye?
Extended: Mieke Bal, The Mottled Screen: Reading Proust Visually,
Marcel Proust, Optical Instruments, Stamford, 1997. chapter 5, 69 pp
“Even those who commended my perception of the truths which I wanted eventually engrave within the temple, congratulated me on having discovered them with a microscope’, when on the contrary it was a telescope that I used to observe things which were indeed very small to the naked eye, but only because they were situated at a great distance, and which were each one of them in itself a world.
Guest Artists
Natalie Loveless CDN
Yusuf Durodola NG
Nenad Bogdanovic SRB
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Lock Unlock 10 Performance Art Project
17. November 2020
Concept Note: “Body as a potential site…” Anupam Saikia
The Body as potential site…
Body as a potential site of violence and the conflicts from the mind and body crafted a camouflage of unconscious fear.
The coexistence of fear and violence in our everyday public, personal and private spaces lead to the regimentation and disciplining of everyday work conditions, and the scope of developing anti-hegemonic subjectivity constantly faces a
threat.
Indeed, this binary of psychological violence and reality brings forward the subconscious terror and conscious artistry in the same platform. Geometrically it can be simulated as a straight line a curved line.
Like in the riots the spatial space bears the heat of the rage, while the body becomes the site of the physical violence powered with emotional violence.
Guest Artists
Tomo Seto JP
Andrea Aguia Bogota COL
Rajni Bairiganjan IND
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Lock Unlock 9 Performance Art Project
13. October 2020
Concept Note: “Deep Dark Night pass by my heart morning ring the bell…” Satadru Sovan
A poetic fragment
“Deep Dark Night pass by my heart Morning ring the bell.
Last night on the net I lost my heart.
Night is dark deep, un-illuminated, ill-lit,
poorly lit, moonless, dingy, gloomy, overcast,
Deep dark Night is mystery there is song of desire”
Guest Artists
Maruri Jha IND
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Lock Unlock 8 Performance Art Project
31. August 2020
Concept Note: “Time’s mirror is both true and false…” Inder Salim
In Rene Magritte’s painting The false mirror, a simultaneity of a kind of a black-hole accompanies a familiar atmosphere of sky within the parenthesis of eyelids which powerfully engulf the very eye that engages.
Can one say, whatever disappears at the horizon returns back to the atmosphere of our conscious mind as we desire ?
Certainly not.
A hyperbole at every level sits in between to let the surplus of our realities intervene and change us for ever.
It is happening, at molecular levels at least …
Lock Unlock Performance exercise is a perpetual dance between what stands as visual and what escapes our collective frames via our respective lenses.
For once, what if we leave the camera alone for the sake of the designed 15 minutes duration and return back to share the details. What new colour, a crisp commentary of the time we left the camera alone, would be like ?
We can fill the space in front of the camera with a drippling or a drawing or an earlier video clip, or anything that we think represents us. Better if a blackened screen.
All the evidences of our Lock-Unlock so far engages the falsity and facticity of the eye, which is time-in-itself and Time-for-itself.
Performance art dances with the ethereal oscillations of Time and Untime.
“Nothing is outside” explains that Time-Untime is inclusive of us at every level, and there is no concreate vantage point to see us and the world in one go. Either we see us or we merge with the flow….
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Lock Unlock 7 Performance Art Project
10. August 2020
Rajesh Trilokyia concept note: RASA (Emotions)
From Rasa Theory
Bharata Muni’s Rasa theory written on Natyashastra is widely acknowledged by dramatists.
We as a performance artist also incorporate the principles of his theory.
Rasa has eight namely: joy (hasya), fear (bhayanaka), anger (raudra), love (shringar), courage (vira), sadness (karuna), amazement (adbhuta), disgust (vibhatsya) and and added with Abhinav Gupta’s one rasa(the ninth one) i.e. calmness (shanti).
In Indian aesthetics, Rasa means juice, sap, essence, taste, which evokes human emotions.
Whenever we see or feel anything, it comes out in a form of a particular emotion of what we are thinking.
The gestures, facial expressions or the way we speak determines our emotions, which are stated in Rasa theory.
Like we laugh when we are happy, tears come out when we are in pain, those attributes were stated in a widely read theory of Rasa.
I would like to introspect emotions through our performances.
Each one of will take any one particular Rasa out of nine connect that to individual life experience.
It is possible to consider more than one rasa in his performance.
Guest Artists
Martine Vale FR
Isobel Bruno BOL
Jeetin Rangher IND
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Lock Unlock 6 Performance Art Project
20. July 2020
Dimple Shah concept Note: Liquid Body (Fluid space and Thoughts)
This Performance Concept is about human bodies which contain 60-percent of water, wrapped with flesh, flowing within the body in veins and nervous systems.
According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and lungs about 83% water. The skin contains 64% water, muscles and kidneys 79%, and even bones are 31% watery.
Each day humans must consume certain amount of water to survive. This liquid helps body to work efficiently and effectively the network within body system.
Keeping that into consideration I have conceptualised to trace internal complex system of network flowing in body and their movements in it as metaphor. This Concept is to explore liquid body movement in all its manifestation.
Through this one learns to reciprocate its movements in human body both Psychological and Physical spaces which can be considered fluid Spaces.
This liquid body is also about how it connects from individual to society to nature to earth and doing inward studying and having deep knowledge of body and movements of liquid within it and sensitizes understanding to this movement in complex network of body.
This liquid in body affects both physical and psychology of individual person and this can be introspected.
Water is commonly associated to thinking in general.
Guest Artists
Dinesh Salonki IND
Angel Alado MX
Abhijit Ray IND
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Lock Unlock 5 Performance Art Project
29. June 2020
Mukesh Singh concept Note: Black and White
All dualities have to be dropped:
the duality of mind and heart,
the duality of matter and mind, the duality of thinking and emotion,
the duality of the positive and the negative, the duality of male and female, yin and yang,
the duality of day and night, summer and winter,
the duality of life and death ,
the duality of Black and White ...
All dualities.
Duality as such has to be dropped, because you are beyond duality.
You are free from Everything …
Guest Artists
anna. laclaque DE
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Lock Unlock 4 Performance Art Project
08. June 2020
Dagmar I. Glausnitzer - Smith concept Note: "Neutral Palette"
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Lock Unlock 3 Performance Art Project
25. May 2020
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Lock Unlock 2 Performance Art Project
11. May
Rajesh Trilokyia concept: Measure
Guest Artists
anna. laclaque DE
Sunil Dutt Mamgain IND
Intias Ansari IND
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The Beginning
18. April 2020
Suresh Parashar, Rajeesh Trilokya, anna.laclaque, Dagmar I. Glausnitzer - Smith
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