TQW RESEARCH AFFILIATION: The Artist and the Hungry Dancer
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 realities of a jute mill and iron workers, and two major slums, he reflects on […]
Dance / Class / Movement: TQW RESEARCH AFFILIATION – APRIL-JUNE 2023
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 Chatterjee will research the intersections between dance, class, classicism, labour and decoloniality during her research […]
SMELLS OF RACISM- GASTSPIEL – IMAGETANZ @BRUT WIEN
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 the everyday casual prejudice or Immanuel Kant’s philosophical deliberations on the correlation of body odour […]
SMELLS OF COEXISTENCE ii – Music, Dance and CONVERSATION – 4.3.2023, EINE WELT HAUS Munich
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 songs and melodies ranging from mysticism to folklore. The performance brings together songs from all […]
Smells of Coexistence (since 2021)
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, some of them going as far back as 20 years. Looking at SMELLS OF COEXISTENCE […]
smells of racism (since 2021)
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 smells of racism, choreographer Sandra Chatterjee and her team deal with the cultural and political […]
no smell in outer space (2019)
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 ranken sich um Düfte und Gerüche? Ein Abend über die geheime Geschichte des Geruchs, seine […]
Back to the Beautiful (Water Memories) (2017-2019)
Table Conversations #3 (2017/2018)
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. What happens in intense silence? At the center of this work is a table, which […]
PREMIERE: SMELLS OF RACISM: 15 JULY 2021
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 sind, so sehr gibt es in unterschiedlichsten kulturellen Praktiken rituelle und spirituelle Bedeutungen und Verwendungen […]