Drop-in Sessions
Give Me a Message, I will Write it for You
Do you want to explore the duality of newness that comes from going back to something old?
Replaced largely by technology, paper has become as if something from times past. In this drop in, live performance session, you can walk in and participate with artist Smitha Cariappa to create an experience for yourself.
The artist will be seated partially blindfolded at the gallery, waiting for visitors to come and relay a message. She will then write it down on a postcard or paper which she will then hand over to you. Through her performance, the artist in tandem with visitors will attempt to reflect on socio-cultural gaps and misconceptions.
Smitha Cariappa
Artist
Smitha Cariappa, is an interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Bangalore. She has a post-graduation in painting from College of Fine Arts, Bangalore. Cariappa loves trekking, exploring cities and the countryside on foot and has done a series of self-documented performative walks in isolated landscapes. She is interested in culinary art and often employs food as a medium and prop in her performance, installations and video projections. Additionally, her artworks are informed by retro/ urban fashion, urban gardening and animals.
She is the recipient of multiple national and international awards and residencies such as the Commonwealth Arts Award (1997/98), the Swiss residency in Aarau (2007), and the Ozu residency in Rome, Italy (2008). She has presented her artworks at various international performance art festivals in India, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean islands. She curated the International Live Art Festival in Bangalore in 2011 and started Live Art Lab in 2012. Her works and interviews have appeared in various international articles.
