Anupam Saikia

As Part of Kolkata International Performance Art Festival 2017 KIPAF 17 Holding a frame he is walking on the street. He falls, wake, silence etc and he left his body mark. Everybody lives within a frame that’s created by us as well as by social or political structure. There is no way out of this frame. SigH – LeNs (silence) and Vio – LeNs (violence)  The video link:  Click here for you tube link Anupam Saikia | anupam.saikia87@gmail.com

as Part of “the longest performance day” | 2017 | Duration 20 minutes. Curated by Dorothea Rust and Irene Muller. A Peppermint Candy is trembling from his mouth with an inviting gesture. He is wearing a hat like tub and holding some leaf like offering to viewers. Audience can interact with the space, with the objects or leafs. Finally they have to bite the candy which creates a kind of erotophobic sensibilities with the visuals. He uncover the head, lots of leaf fall down from the tub. Anupam Saikia. #performanceart #liveperformance #eroticart

There is no flower a durational Art Performance by Anupam Saikia at Howrah, India. This performance is part of Srinagar Biennale International, Howrah and Sweden at 2017. Brick tied on chest tightly, Flower and Flow War written on that. Wearing a yellow helmet and a flower garland covering the mouth, he was started walking. Holding a water melon he walked for long, Walk, Walk and Walk. When he crosses the railway line he cut the Water melon into two pieces. Walk again; finally reached Saraswati Pally (a slam area in Howrah) he gave the Water melon to children to have it. He finished his action after he wrote on a blackboard “Where is the flower?”  Anupam Saikia  |  anupam.saikia87@gmail.com

This project was Documents by Hossain Atahar Surjo and Fatema Helia A site specific performative installation (?) titled “Shadow of a shadow” was done on the open day of Crack International art Camp. I want to create a painting in the site which we may call site specific painting where the act of painting is no exist but the element or subject of my previous painting is physically exist. I am obsesses with some element like bed, body in landscape in my painting. Therefore, in the camp I decided to select a wide horizon / landscape as background, and the middle ground there is tilted bed on the water surface and I perform in the middle ground, and the foreground there was four body marks by white line and dig on the ground. For me the whole area is like a painting in physical and existential as well as audience can move inside the painting. Indeed, the whole work is open for the public, where the local villagers were come to...