Baroda

Guangzhou exhibition description from Cai Qiaoling

Biljana Ciric, the curator of the exhibition invited individuals who visited the exhibition in Guangzhou to write and a share a description: Project #1: Repetition as a gesture towards deep listening Thinking and practicing how we could allow someone distant and not physically present to encounter…

Womanifesto in Guangzhou

Gatherings at Guangzhou Triennial, March – May 2021 at Art Museum, Guangzhou Academy of Art. Curated by Biljana Ciric The first Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial Repetition as a gesture towards deep listening[i] Conceived by: Biljana Ciric Collaborators Womanifesto and The Factory Contemporary Art Centre Duration of…

standing here

She found herself standing there. She was asked to wait, but had wandered ….She found herself standing there, where labyrinthian alleys and long shadows led her, to the remains of a once protected courtyard Amongst the rubble stood a date-palm defiantly bearing fruit, and in…

performance by Anuradha Upadhyaya

Performative reading of Sara Shagufta’s poem, How Solitary is the Moon for Womanifesto 2020: Gatherings, Voices in the Courtyard, Baroda. December 20, 2020   HOW SOLITARY IS THE MOON   The shadow of a cage is too an imprisonment I continue to become the shadow…

Two texts. Ananya Patel

Considering Invisible Labour, I have been thinking about two texts. The first is a book called Flâneuse, which I found in a bookshop in London when I was studying there. Its written by Lauren Elkin, an American scholar who, upon experiencing a semester abroad in…

Rashmimala makes kosambari.

Making of a salad: Kosambari, A healthy and easy to assemble salad made with lentils. This is a typical south Indian salad made from pulses (split legumes) seasoned with grated coconut and mustard seeds. These salads are sometimes eaten as a snack, but usually as…

photo Ananya Patel

voices from the courtyard

In the courtyard of my studio located in an industrial area of the city, 7 women arrived with texts of their choice – written by themselves or other women – short stories, poems, statistics even, and shared. The overall theme was women’s invisible labour, and…