OPEN-ART-NURSERY

LIFE is the "CAUSE" and ART is the "EFFECT"

The Olfactory dimension in a performance

'SPICE CHRONICLES' A performance about the stories of different (plant) spices - their histories,identities and fragrances.... The puppets were directed by the camera documentation - viewing and reviewing - and photography of the seasons of Autum to hilight the interconnections beyond the actual performance.

LOCKED DOWN BUT VIRTUALLY (inter)CONNECTED

‘The Sky above, the Earth below and in between there is life’ An excerpt from ’Omar and the Underworld’ a film with puppets - for children, which explores the interconnected biosphere. Inspired by Kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art - creating puppets from broken porcelain - 'THE NIGHTINGALE' by Hans Christian Andersen Excerpts from an online performance 'I AM A PLANT'

Dark&Delicious - A performance where Botany meets Poetry and Poetry meets Flavour

CREATING PUPPETS OF PLANTS 'GINGER' AND 'COCOA' TO COUNTER CLIMATE CHANGE

In 2019, (February) puppet characters of the plants Ginger and Cocoa as well as their ‘transgenic off springs’ were created to host an art soiree entitled ‘Fragile Kinships’ examining Ecology at The Embassy of Switzerland in New Delhi.

Humanized Plant Puppet Characters of Garlic, Cardamom and Saffron

In 2016 The Goethe Institute in Bangalore facilitated a grant that enabled the design and fabrication of three puppet characters to expand the idea and perception of gender. Humanized multi gendered characters of the plant spices Garlic, Cardamom and Saffron were created and presented to a live audience at the ‘Gender Bender performance art festival’ curated by The Sandbox Collective. Although these puppet characters were fantastical, their parts were constructed to be botanically accurate. Their multi-gendered sexuality and cultural identity defied all that is known as normal and yet they were based on the facts of the botanical sciences.

Doctor Hara and his Photosynthesis by Moonlight

In 2015 a life sized puppet character called ‘Dr. Hara’ was conceptualized and created as a mascot to introduce to the public the office of Climate Change at the Embassy of Switzerland in New Delhi. Dr. Hara was a half plant half human survivor of an illegal experiment. He could talk to plants and understand them and was in search of ‘plant refugees’ who were unable to live in their natural habitats due to the changing climate. Performance in a Science Laboratory