Unconscious Through Insane

An Art Performance by Anupam Saikia as part of Kolkata International Performance Art Festival 2019 / Kipaf19 at Kolkata, India.

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNbhaqOaW6Y&t=7s

We are at the the time where flooded of images (many kinds) and information came across through different media that violated our everyday life. This anxiety activated our psychological space but it repressed in a way that came through in our activities. We are framed, being framed in psychological violence. My aim is to express the psychological violation through the performative action, in an experiential space juxtaposed with lullabies in a different language and some experimental soundscape. Some part of the soundscape is also copied from a song by Mihâly Vig, from Bela Tarr's film "A Torinoi Lo" (The Turin Horse).

Curators: Santosh Kumar Sakhinala, Mome Bhattacharya, Yuzuru Maeda, Srinivas Mangipudi. Documantation: Anirban Dutta, B Ajay Sharma.

#Kipaf19 

Wash! Body in annihilating moment.

A Photo essay of the performance art by Anupam Saikia, part of the "As Soon As Possible", Group exhibition and performance project at Proscenium Art Centre, Kolkata, India. Organized by Pandemonium Art Collective Collaborative.

By Anupam Saikia. 

Feb 2018 | Proscenium Art Centre, Kolkata | India. 

Parking Silence | an Art Performance by Anupam Saikia | 2017

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) 

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A thirsty Fish | An Art performance by Anupam Saikia at Venkattappa Art Gallery, Banglore

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

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