Anupam Saikia

It's all about Performance Art and the possibilities of presence where Hector Canoge talks through his experience. Also, this conversation is trying to make a bridge to the Performance art in general through Hector’s performative practices. We know due to Covid-19 there were lots of critical question come to the physical presence and Body. We try to address the presence in the live situation. There was the question of improvising/improvisation, and the idea of installation in  performance art related to the materials used, etc. Hector Canonge is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural producer based in New York City. His work incorporates various forms of artistic expression: Performance Art, Dance, Multimedia Production, Installation, and Social Practice to explore and treat issues related to constructions of identity, gender roles, and the politics of migration. Challenging the white box settings of a gallery or a museum, or intervening directly in public spaces,...

Amitesh Grover talks about the philosophical understanding of the medium performance in relation to his experiences, also stimulatingly talks about the parameter between Performing Art and Performance Art, how that’s become a blur in the process, in his practices, within the body etc. This conversation was Moderation by Anupam Saikia. Amitesh Grover (b.1980) is a performer, director, writer, and curator based in New Delhi, India. His works move beyond theatre, into visual ar ts, films, photography, installations, publishing, and processes, and are shown internationally in theatres, galleries, public spaces, and on the internet. https://youtu.be/C2jKtnd8EwU

This is the conversation with Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, Germany talks about her experience in the field of Performance Art, Performance Workshops, Pedagogical aspects, etc. moderation by Anupam Saikia. About Dagmar:  Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith was graduated in London from the Royal College of Art in 2000 and from Goldsmiths' College in 1994. After her completion of a two year Picker Fellowship at Kingston University in 2003, she returned to Germany organizing international T.a.T.(pure action in art in action) Performance Art Workshops and City site-specific 12-hour Marathon Performance Art Workshops called 'Werktag'. BODYSCAPE zone: BODYSCAPE zone is a mantel space in relation to the Performance Art, also, this can be physical and psychological space, etc. Dealing with these spaces Bodyscape Zone will talk about the process, pre-process, what are the performative sketches before execution, the mental process of the performer, the plan, etc. It is a platform, ...

Radical Bodies: Slipping into beyond is a Performance Art project cum workshop. It was facilitated by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, Germany, hosted by School of Visual Arts, World University of Design, Sonipat, Delhi NCR from 31st Sept 2019 to 2nd Oct 2019.  This unique program was curated and developed by Anupam Saikia , a prolific painter, with years of experience in performance art also he is a faculty at World University of Design. The School of Visual Arts, WUD always looking for the new methodologies, in teaching that is aimed at inspiring young minds to experience contemporary nature embodied Art as a tool with their personal experiences to know self, body, identities in complex context by exploring Performance Art.  This project was open for the learner, professional in Visual Arts who believe in Performance Art has possibilities to open a window to know the self, also understanding and enhance the medium in the contemporary India...

A box to Live: The venue is a boxlike room but it’s actually a box for him that he understands as a box for sleeping. He hardly ever uses the word “House”, but he feels “Room” is a more suitable word when he mentions to the box. What keeps him from calling his living space as the “House”? Relationship with space: “According to him, he doesn’t have an “emotional attachment” with this house unlike I did when I rent a flat in Delhi. I think if we have an organic relationship with spaces comes from more mutual and comprehensive elements rather than one-sided assumption by human beings.” – said Tomo Seto. Venue: Anupam Saikia’s living room, at Kolkata. Date: 28 th May 2018. This is the second edition of the project called “Someone’s House”, conceptualized by Tomo Seto. It aims to understand the nature of the space where someone lives and see more diversity and the possibility of performance art or any active medium. The second edition initiated and Curated by Anu...