Open Space @ THE HUB - Alliance Francaise

The Alliance Française, Delhi will serve as the hub of the festival with a lunch each afternoon and an open forum or OPEN SPACE where artists/musicians/actors/poets are invited to come up on the stage and perform/interact/act/.

Wednesday, March 26, 12:30pm
Delphine Bourdier -> " THE DRESS OF IDEAS "

" TO PRINT AN IDEA
TO WEAR AN IDEA
TO CUT AN IDEA
TO GIVE AT THE END AN IDEA,
BECAUSE "AN IDEA CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE"

followed by

Krishnan Pillai ->

" speakers on stands around me which would have feeds of my voice running through them... responding to the feeds... as the performance... half an hour or something.. i'll be makin it in 2 the recording studio this weekend at some point... .."

Tursday, March 27, 12:30pm

Suvadeep Das - >

"interactive show with a shamanic perspective of sound taken from the ethnic background and presented in the contemporary frame. How the elements of fire, smoke, aroma, or even odor takes a certain formless form all through the eye of the viewers and the viewed. There will also be an element of Butoh movement as the mechanics of body plays a vital role along with the technical device if any per say the audio sound."

Friday, March 28, 2008, 12.30-3.30 pm

Open Baithak @ Khoj Live 08
in association with
Open Baithak
presents

Open Space **Poetry in performance special

FEATURING *VIVEK NARAYANAN + SOPHEA LERNER*

Who will present a suite of site-specific, pre-composed and improvised poems, sound objects and audience interactions. They would like to explore and unveil disconnections and echoes around time, place, language and voice, using their toolkit of poetry, performance and sound art practices.

THE LINEUP ALSO FEATURES

Salil Chaturvedi

Michael Creighton

Rizwan Mirza

Monica Mody

Anne Philpott

Annie Zaidi

Followed by a limited Open Mic (5 min on the stage)

Bring in fresh work!! To sign up to read/perform, email openbaithak@gmail.com or show up early at the Baithak.

Vivek Narayanan says, “Over the years I have moved away from thinking about performance as merely a way to make poems more entertaining and accessible, to thinking about the radical contextual possibilities of performance, and collaboration. I am interested specifically in the active performance of ‘difficult’ poems.”

This time, explore the radical in your performance.

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Open Baithak is a contemporary gathering of poets in Delhi which offers a space for new and innovative ways of presenting poetry to audiences. Poets come from different linguistic, written and oral traditions. Visit openbaithak.wordpress.com.