Curated Conversations on Dramaturgy of Modern Resilience: Tech-o-lution #2 - Development of the Harkat Virtual Interactive Stage
About the Series:
Dramaturgy of Modern Resilience: Tech-o-lution
'Technology: the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.'
From the first time a performance was ever staged, technology has been an inseparable part of it - whether in the form of lights, set or special effects. The pandemic, though, has accelerated the use and triggered a new language of performance.
What is the Dramaturgy of this new language of Performance - of Resilience through Technology?
About Karan Suri Talwar:
A filmmaker, artist and curator based between Mumbai and Berlin, Karan is the co-founder and curator at Harkat Studios. He wears many hats and enjoys making things. He directs narrative and experimental films, curates exhibits and performative works an is an arts enabler as part of his work at Harkat
About Harkat Studios:
Harkat is an international boutique arts studio with a passion for film, new media, community art spaces and contemporary art. Based in Mumbai & Berlin, Harkat takes many forms and identities across disciplines. At the core, they are a collective of passionate storytellers from diverse cultural, business and creative backgrounds. This conversation will be focused on the development of the Harkat Virtual Interactive stage
About the Moderator:
A graduate of Theatre Design and Direction from the National School of Drama, Nikita likes to work with various disciplines, concerning her work mostly with Gender, Privilege, and Sustainability. She is a creator and curator who likes to let her artwork be an entry point for sensitive conversations to happen sensibly. She prefers to work with communities in rural India to use art as an intervention of social and ecological concerns. She is a student of the Baul tradition and Kudiyattam and through the aesthetics of these traditional art forms, explores the meaning of modernity in art and dynamics of the audience-performer relationship. Her work is mostly site-specific and tries to include lesser-known narratives of a place. As an art educator, she undertakes modules on sustainability and design thinking in remote villages as well as urban cities of India. As a performer, she's performed in Hungary, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and London. She was recipient of the Ministry of Culture Performance Research fellowship for two years consecutively (2017-2019) and was an arts fellow at the Anant University of Design (2020). She is the founder member of The P(art)icle Collective (Delhi), Technical Director of Festival Tantidhatri (Shantiniketan) and the founder of SICCA (Sustainable Indeginous Centre for Collaborative Arts).