Online Lecture by Joyraj Bhattacharjee In this online talk, Joyraj Bhattacharjee will discuss the potential of developing movement practices from the perspective of a politically integrated art practitioner based in Howrah, India. Grounded in his neighbourhood shaped by the everyday…
Dance / Class / Movement Investigating dance, class(ic)ism and labour from decolonising perspectives Grounded in her practice as a choreographer working with the senses and her training in and research on classical Indian dance and its (post) colonial dimensions, Sandra…
Sandra Chatterjee and friends: Smells of Racism studio brut, Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Vienna Dance / Installation / Lecture performance / Music Austrian Premiere in German and English imagetanz 2023 How does racism smell and what is it that is smelled? Be it…
Ashram – Arko Mukhaerjee and Kanishka Sarkar (Music) and Sandra Chatterjee (Dance) SMELLS OF COEXISTENCE ii is a performance with live music and dance. The sound of Ashram is a unique blend of live electronica, loops, grooves and samples with…
The ongoing project SMELLS OF COEXISTENCE emerges from an engagement with smell and performance that began in 2018 (building on the project SMELLS OF RACISM) as well as multiple combinations of music and dance collaborations between Arko, Kanishka and Sandra,…
What does racism smell like? From everyday prejudices against different body odours or different fragrance traditions to the philosophical treatises of Immanuel Kant: The connection between smell and racism has a long (western) tradition. With various performance formats dealing with…
Paris. Eine renommierte Parfümeurin sieht einen Hollywoodfilm, der im Weltraum spielt. Plötzlich die beängstigende Erkenntnis: sie versteht das All als Ort ohne Gerüche! München. Eine Spurensuche: die geheime Geschichte des Geruchs erforschen, seine poetischen und politischen Aspekte. Welche Mythen, welche Erzählungen…
silent dialogues in space Table Conversations is a participatory performance, which tests communication instructions. In the process, we use codes and strategies from different dance and musical cultures. We ask: what reveals itself when we leave out the (spoken) word.…
Rassismus hat seit langem eine olfaktorische Seite. So behauptete beispielsweise Immanuel Kant eine direkte Verbindung zwischen Körpergeruch und Hautfarbe. Auch heute noch berichten Menschen von Beschwerden wegen „unangenehmer“ und „zu intensiver“ Gerüche. So sehr Gerüche im Kontext von Rassismus relevant…