"where does the flame come from?to where does it go?"..a Pi performance

"where does the flame come from?to where does it go?"..a Pi performance on Newton's 3rd law.initiated by suman(mozo),also featuring taufik riaz.WORLD VIEW,JU,4:30pm,TODAY.join in love,Pi.

Kipaf 2015

Kolkata International Performance Art Festival 2015

Curatorial Note

‘if Jodi is hoi,

Yet tobu,

But kintu,

What mane ki?’

With the recognition of political differences, the spaces of and for contestations grow that provokes cultural articulations. Space as a site, stage and location is imploding with the potential to contradict and contest the established power relations and cultural desires. Performance art aids us to intervene in those socio-cultural desires and make evident the possible alternative modes of thinking and being, where being is a condition of constant formation. Interventions can be made by re-enacting the everyday activities in performative gestures and, politics of contestation embodied in a spatial frame can introduce a poetic rupture and transformative ambiguity. Performance art provides us modes and languages of engaging with space by reconfiguring the available representations of the body—the medium—and a possibility to explore the body to act as a site of inhabiting that space and the emotions, sentiments, moral anxieties. Hence, we are in agreement that performance art has the potential to convert a space with hidden tensions into a contested space by introducing and interrogating these tensions.

How do we conceive the role of Kolkata, the city space, while spatially identifying it as our site of source of collective embodiment during KIPAF 2015? We treat spatial presence as intersected, particularly at present, with multiple temporalities, discourses of identity and new aspirations to progress where, space is approached as material, measurable and marketable resource. Kolkata International Performance Art Festival (KIPAF) – 2015 aims to explore the concept and materiality of space in its multiplicity and complexity and reveal the possible contestations that are both visible and invisible. This exploration simultaneously involves an active interrogation of the grammar and language of performance art itself, but more importantly the very notion of ‘contestation’ from the perspective of a disciplinary critique of performance art.

Keeping its minority position within the field of art and its history, performance art as language endows us with a lever to question the aesthetics of contemporary art practices. We would also like the participants to ponder over notions of space (subterranean, official, ornamental), the very idea of contestation, its relation with performance art, and ways in which contestation is performed within the framework of performance art.  KIPAF itself is emerging as a site of contestations, challenging the notions of what is organization? What is curation? And what are the broader implications of the ways in which the curatorial space is produced and circulated? Where do we stand in relation to these modes of production and distribution?

KIPAF15 invites applications in three following categories:

Curated Section

The section would include the set of proposals that KIPAF considers as the core representative of the festival, taking into account the extent of resonance of the proposals with KIPAF-15 curatorial note and the engagement with the framework of performance art practice.

Open Section

The proposals invited in this section are aimed to include as many participant artists as possible, from across the hierarchies of practices, regions and nations. The performances selected of this section may run parallel to the curated section.

Students Section

Keeping the growth of performance art practice within the art schools and increasing interest of the student-artists, this section welcomes the students to perform, participate and interact with the artists in enriching themselves as well as the general understanding of performance art at present.

We don’t aim to create any commodity or service.

We try to create an atmosphere for communication among artists and friends and also with the place and its people. We presume that art rises or falls out of atmospheres.

Performance art offers us a medium where diverse disciplines can meet. We try to work with the bare minimum as far as money is concerned. We organize KIPAF with small contributions and donations from friends and public bodies. We think it necessary to keep this festival as a place to practice art and interaction outside the patronage of big capital.

Unable to offer the artists any remuneration or travel expenses to and from Kolkata, we take responsibilities of the curated artists’ stay, food and local conveyance in the city. We will share the same with all participants as much as our limits allow.

Performers independent’s basic concern is to work with the science and art of our traditional hospitality and local fair (shadhu-shanga) practices in our present urban art contexts.

23rd January to 26th January 2015
kolkata

Blog:  kipaf.blogspot.in/

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/kipaf 

Email address: kipaf2013@gmail.com

For More information contact

Taufik Riaz (+919674259397)/Chimuk(+919836352770)

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

Glimpse :  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658710584216891.1073741837.340891092665510&type=1

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.

link: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.714208555333760.1073741840.340891092665510&type=1



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

Link:  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.719600421461240.1073741842.340891092665510& type=1&pnref=story



"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

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.695384760516847.1073741876.331628293559164&type=3


*Open hour:"SCHOOL ME HUM SAB BACHE THE MAGAR O SCHOOL HAY KAHA"
  https://www.facebook.com/partha.das.50746/media_set?set=a.595469307232943&type=1

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

facebook : https://www.facebook.com/events/811159528902150/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

screening album : https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.658711610883455.1073741838.340891092665510&type=1

video link : http://vimeo.com/102910085

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"
 

image link :  https://www.facebook.com/chirantan.mukhopadhay /media_set?set=a.857255647623202.1073741857.100000163252735&type=3




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

 

 

image link:        https://www.facebook.com/chirantan.mukhopadhay/media_set?set=a.857260880956012.1073741858.100000163252735&type=3