The Month : Novemeber

 The Month :  Novemeber

1november,Sat.8am.in front of Akademy of fine arts,kolkata
& clubgreen camp,Bishnupur,bankura.
whole day painting workshop.pls bring your materials.regards
Pi

KIPAF2015 lands on streets,
initiated by Bhaskar Chitrakar.10Nov'14.8am onwds.
akademy of fine arts,kolkata.
bring your musical instruments & colored chalks..
love,Pi

"October 2014 series of performances in the city "

Performers independent initiative "October 2014 series of performances in the city "

"Like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free......"

from ""October 2014 series " ,
October series - "The Wounded Dog" , day one workshop based performance series.
every artist with their own symbolic materiel of protest and a comfortable space.
date-12.10.14
duration - 12:30pm to 7:30pm

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October series DOG-2 "STATE OF SNIFFERS SNIFFERS OF STATE"  

Performers independent , October series

DOG-2
"STATE OF SNIFFERS
SNIFFERS OF STATE" by Syed Taufik Riaz ,Chimuk & Babun.
image design : Chi Muk

evening walk with two leash dog from jadavpur 1st gate - 8b bus stand - jadavpur P.S - south city mall.

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Pi October series
Performance ~ 3rd ,
"THE NIGHT BETWEEN 23RD & 24TH OCTOBER 2014"
around 1am , Vivekananda perk,southern avenue,kolkata

~MY NAME IS BLACK by Syed Taufik Riaz(for my friend sajan mani)
~RED MOON by Pavitra mehta
~L3:'who walked between the white and the black,who slept between various ranks of various red'(few letters from Elliot) by Chi Muk

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"Few lines from Prothom Protisruti" - a performance triptych, coming planning..

Khela Bhangar Khela : a requiem to amnesia at Basudha Festival,Odisha

                                        Khela Bhangar Khela : a requiem to amnesia

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*Open hour:"SCHOOL ME HUM SAB BACHE THE MAGAR O SCHOOL HAY KAHA"
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The Impressions Project (A Sunday Afternoon)

There are notions of contemporary cities and there contemporary notions about rivers. How do these relationships unfold in cities today? Each city stands at a different point in its place in the history of progress and identity formation. The appropriation and re-enactment of Seurat’s ‘The Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte’ enables us to examine the notions of leisure and mundane as they circulate between Kolkata and Hooghly river.

The complexity and dynamism in the river-city relationship get mirrored in Seurat’s spatial divisions and his use of multiple perspectives. Seurat’s attempts to break and then restructure spaces and perspective inform the way the work is enacted and composed. The congestion of the city and its close knit relationship with the river makes the re-enactment almost a point of initiation…slowly the city begins to take over.

Concept- Chinmoyi Patel and Rahul Bhattacharya
Direction – Anirban Datta , Chinmoyi Patel and Rahul Bhattacharya
Camera- Partha Das, AnirbanDatta and Trayajit Dutta
Performers- Rahul Bhattacharya, ChimoyiPatel.Chi Muk ,Arijit Bhattacharyya , Uma Banerjee,PradipChattopadhyay (Bula Da),Pabitra Khanra,Rituparna Banarjee, Susmita Das, Amitabha Adhikari, SU Man Suman Mondal, TrayajitDutta and BasabiMajumdar
Editing- Anirban Datta

special thanks to Manas Acharya and STUDIO 21

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Few Performance In Between - "searching impression" & 'the city through the mirror '

Performers independent at Jadavpur University campus,Worldview with Aabra'ca'Dabra
23rd april, 6:30pm onwards. a joint performance by Syed Taufik Riaz and Chi Muk

                                        "searching impression"
 

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A pi performance based on shakespeare's sonnet no LI.,
'GHOST OF SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL' at dover guest house, dover lane, kolkata. 
a performance by Syed Taufik Riaz and Chi Muk
30th april'2014.

                   'the city through the mirror '-A Pi Performance

 

 

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Children's Art show 2014

Children’s art exhibition: 33 paintings
Here we present 33 selected paintings from the Pi (Performers’ independent) archive of children’s paintings collected from various schools of Kolkata and surrounding districts, as well as Santiniketan. The exhibition is the result of a building relationship initiated by Pi, as part of the annual performance art festival held in Kolkata –Kolkata International Performance Art Festival(KIPAF), extending ourselves and our friends to involve and interact with the children, their parents and teachers.
Pi is an artists’ collective based in Kolkata & Shantiniketan. It is an open collective of artists, theoreticians, academicians and students from multiple disciplines as its active members. Pi collaborates with concerned individuals, organizations and groups to initiate and execute different art activities and projects ranging from workshops, seminars, films, performances, exhibitions and publications. Studio 21, Chitrakoot Art Gallery and Club Green are enthusiastic collaborators of Pi to name few.
KIPAF is a festival focusing on performance art/ art performance where artists from inland & abroad gather in Kolkata for 4days( 23rd – 26th January every year) to interact, collaborate and perform at diverse sites like regular art galleries, academic institutions, public and everyday places of living. This exhibition of children’s painting is part of the KIPAF14. Children from infant to class XII were invited to participate in this exhibition. For convenience we categorized them in four groups and provided them with some subjects related to KIPAF14 theme. (Group A: Infant to Class II, sub: whatever you like; Group B: Class III to Class V, sub: my city of mirrors; Group C: Class VI to VIII, sub: in the circle of friends; Group D: Class IX to Class XII, sub: three cups of tea)
33 paintings are selected by practicing artists and educationists associated with Pi from 95 participants. These paintings show a brilliant engagement by the children to the call of Pi and we are happy to bring this inspiring works to the public through this exhibition. We express our heartiest thanks to Chitrakoot Art Gallery and Mr. Kejriwal for providing us with their space and advices. We also thank all concerned friends of Pi whose efforts contributed to put up this exhibition.
We have various plans of similar collaborations in future. We hope to get your support and involvement for an enduring relationship.
Text : Amitabha Adhikari
Poster Design : Chimuk
Link: http://www.kipaf.blogspot.in/p/blog-page_4504.html 

 

"Tiffin Box" ~A pi( Performers independentr) production

 "Tiffin Box" 

 poster design(chimuk)

 Acting Syed Taufik Riaz
Assistance and designing Chi Muk
Editing and sound uttarayan sengupta
     Concept photography direction সুমন মজুমদার (suman majumder)

~A pi( Performers independentr) production

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few lines from PROTHOM PROTISRUTI

few lines from PROTHOM PROTISRUTI,
a performance triptych by Pi.
14feb'2014.3,5,7PM.NANDAN COMPLEX,kolkata. 
The performance took place in three segments image-narrative. In the first segment Amitava, Rituparna, and Uma entered the space of performance and started engaging in the mundane activities of domestic personal space – Amitava grinds black cumin, Uma washes her arms, face and neck, Rituparna applies kajal to her eyes and tries to make her hair. Chirantan sits on his knees and makes a floor design with chalk pieces, moving and stretching his body. Rupan sings “naa go eije dhula amar naa ae..” by Rabindranath Tagore that Rituparna tries to resonate. Taufik reads out a fragment of the novel ‘Prothom Protisruti’ by Ashapurna Devi.
‘Prothom Protisruti’ is the first part of a Realist trilogy about three generations of women at various stages of liberty of personhood, written in the early 1960s, situated in late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The performance is done in three segments for around 15min each with a gap of one hour, enacting different domestic activities involving body. In the Nandan campus, ‘Charukala’ an annual exhibition of Fine Arts was going on, which is sponsored by West Bengal State. When the second segment was being performed, a police man interrupts saying this cannot be done here as a State sponsored event is going on. Otherwise it requires permission. An argument broke between Taufik and the policeman which Taufik had stretched by eventually making time for the activities to be completed by accompanying performers. The interesting thing about it is the policeman, representing the State, got implicated in the performance. For a few minutes it was the presence and display of power of the policeman contrasted with the intimacy of the space that the performative activities have created. In the technically ‘cultural space’ of the State – Nandan – this performance is not “cultural”. Then what is it? Where can we make space for such voice that is expelled by the definitions of dominant ideology of culture? By the very effort to expel (and it was literally in this context) from the space of dominant culture they make such performative engagements “extra-cultural”. And it is this position of “extra-cultural” that provides the political disagreement and dissent to logically contest the State and dominant culture.
So, the plan for the third segment was more challenging and filled with potential for fun!! We returned to the space and started the activities in an invisible manner. Uma, Babun and Rituparna sat under a tree and started braiding each other’s hair into one, connecting the three heads which, produced curiosity and laughter in the minds of the spectators. Chirantan started lighting incense sticks with the help of one burning incense stick. Taufik walked around the space and later started reading the text accompanied by Rupan’s singing. Amitava started sketching the activities. All the activities are mundane in their general form. But these mundane activities were transformed through the performative enactment of them in the space by subverting the normal behaviour. The performative acquired absurdity. And this is a response to the efforts to expel a voice that was speaking of something in a comprehensible language. Thus the situation provoked the language of nonsensical and the absurd that involves the disturbance created by the dominant discourse in the name of “good culture” which is structurally exclusive and emotionally oppressive. The “extra-cultural” seems to be a promising radical position to encounter the bastion of dominant culture that needs to be adequately theorised. Lets make it happen.

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"THIS IS BLOOD : an obituary "

Bleeding concretes bleeding trees bleeding brushes bleeding existence
"THIS IS BLOOD : an obituary "
A Pi( Performers independent) performance initiated by Syed Taufik Riaz ,
Nandan Complex,kolkata , 12.02.14 ,7pm — at Nandan

Animation and Poster : chimuk 

 

 

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