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More often than not we are groping for words to describe routine violence. Routine cases of racial profiling. Of exclusion. We are constantly grappling with stereotypes, with clichés and other biases. Often we look at images and think whether they supplement the words or complement them. Is image only a memory tool? Is it just a visual metaphor? Is it just to learn things by heart?

What is a performance? Merely a text or an improvisation or a series of theatre exercises which are prescribed as typical workshop methods. The image -word relationship is never clear to a student/performer/painter. Often it is presumed that an image is only an image and a word is only a word. Even though we talk about metaphors and captions, they largely remain in the definitional realm. It is in this context that the proposed workshop believes it can make a difference. It probes into the rationale of images and uses them both in textual and performative praxis. Further, the workshops will look at the business of stereotyping and of pigeonholing people through easy definitions.

The workshop will culminate in two short performances—'The Otherness of the Body' and the 'Coffin is Too Big for the Hole'. These will be largely non-verbal and will borrow heavily from Kuo Pao Kun and Aga Shahid Ali, a playwright from Singapore and a poet from Kashmir.

Duration: 1 hr 30 minutes

To Register for this workshop and for any other details, please write to:

aanchal_kapur@hotmail.com/

or call aanchal @ 26033088/ 26027845/ shailey @9818889108

This workshop is being organised as part of the International Peace Day celebrations from 19th-24th September by the KRITI team at the Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre.