Womanifesto 2020
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…
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…
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…
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…
Amruta Patel. There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work[1]. There are many studies, texts and discussions that have explored women and their position in the workplace. We know, for example,…
Daughter to her Mother is based on conversations with my mother on phone during lockdown. These regular phone calls turned out to be the most intimate moments of exchange between us, mother and daughter. That was the time when my mother opened her heart…
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…
“22. Some things do change, however. A membrane can simply rip off your life, like a skin of congealed paint torn off the top of a can. I remember that day very clearly: I had received a phone call. A friend had been in an…
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…
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…
at Varsha’s studio in Baroda
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…
