PERFORMANCEOfferings, 2024
Offerings, 2023
Offerings, 2022
ALAKKALA, 2019
H:O:M:E, 2018
Mokita, 2017
MOVING IMAGEUntitled 02, 2022
Untitled, 2022
INTERWORLD, 2021
smooth-time, 2020
Portal of Possibilities, 2020
A Utah Time Signature, 2019
Book of Dream, 2018
A Los Angeles Time Signature, 2018
An Arctic Time Signature, 2015
INSTALLATIONBurial, 2023
Murti, 2018
The Moving Image, 2017
PHOTOGRAPHYDiosma, 2020
Territory of Darkness, 2020
Werebodies, 2020
Pool Hall, 2017
Walking In My Shoes (Ondru), 2018
Yumarrala Ngulu (Ondru), 2018
They Are Climbing Mt Asgard, 2014
Discs, 2014
Distant, Relative, 2013
Voiceless Journeys (Ondru), 2012
Allery Exhibitions, 2008
DRAWINGS
Dry Yellow, 2020
Dry Red, 2020
Dry Blue, 2018-20
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©2024 Devika Bilimoria Offerings, 2022
Image: Devika Bilimoria
123 offerings in 9 hours over 9 sessions, 3 hours was the longest offering duration.
HONOURS GRADSHOW
The Stables,
Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
NOV 23 - DEC 1
Recipient of the Rodger Davies Award for Excellence.
Offerings is an accumulative durational performance and installation articulated as a ritual-like game of dice. The work is a live task-based procedure where I use dice to generate and enact countless ‘offering scores’ throughout an allocated duration. The seven-word 'offering scores' combine attributes that are randomised across seven categories that traverse both the secular and sanctified. Here, the materials, substances and gestures seen in Hindu worshipping rituals, such as pūjā, are enfolded with the quotidian to incite offerings performed by my body, into a void. Stimulated by randomisation, this chance-based work is an experimental practice of indeterminacy, play and disorientation. It attempts to commune with the porous haunt of embodied intra-cultural inscriptions, matter and entangled lineages—to reimagine what is given.
To see more of this project visit the VCA ART 2022 catalogue.
To hear more about Offerings listen to this RRR radio with Devika and Priya Namana interviewed by Samira Farah.
Image: Renee Stamatova
Image: Renee Stamatova
Image: Devika Bilimoria
Image: Renee Stamatova
Image: Devika Bilimoria
Image: Renee Stamatova
Image: Devika Bilimoria