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This morning practice is a move towards improvisational and contemplative art practice that is focused on understanding the deep connection between the mind and the body; put another way – experience, and meaning that is created from experience. By expanding the space between an embodied experience and the meaning that we ascribe to it, we can become more aware of our habits of mind. This awareness can then lead to the possibility of new meanings being available to us. This practice is based on the understanding that the mind is embodied and that much of our conceptual understands arise out of embodied experiences.
Theme for each day
Day 1: Up and Down
Day 2: Push and pull
Day 3: Same and different
Day 4: Stillness and movement
Day 5: Balance and stability
is an artist and academic from Bangalore, India. Her work is rooted in practice-based research and engages with education, mental health, gender, and the environment. The body plays a central role in her process, which is collaborative and emergent in nature and takes the shape of performing, directing, curating, teaching, writing, and more recently, experimental film and audio work. Over the last 20 years her work has been presented through conferences, festivals, residencies, and publications, in cities across the world such as Sydney, Shanghai, Kathmandu, Singapore, London, New York and several cities in India. Her current projects include being the lead researcher for Open Invitation which is a multi-art, yearlong collaboration with Sonic Matter, Zurich; and Still Standing 4 which is a 12-hour immersive performance experience that builds on her previous work on stillness and has been commissioned by HelloEarth, Sweden.