Performance

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In this multi-media performance, Bahari Chumvi: The Salted Sea, The Indian Ocean comes to life through movement, sound, video and scent, exploring ideas of displacement, migration, loss and return. Working with body and around body [water - space], the performance imagines parts of the ocean's cartographies, memories and confessions; compiling a non-linear narrative that is parallel to the experience of a foreigner/migrant in search for a “better life”. Looking at contemporary work culture, and considering the demands placed on a foreign body - how is the desire and need for rest and restoration grappled with? 

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The Ocean itself, both restless and calm, finds itself in a flux of constant displacement and return (otherness and familiarity); always at the end of a journey and at its beginning.

 

Performed as part of Diasporas Now at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London.

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Performance was accompanied by original score by artist in collaboration with Sonny Bacon.

 

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