Offerings, 2022

Image: Devika Bilimoria

123 offerings in 9 hours over 9 sessions, 3 hours was the longest continuous performance duration.

HONOURS GRADSHOW
The Stables, Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
NOV 23 - DEC 1

2022 RECIPIENT OF THE RODGER DAVIES AWARD FROM THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE.

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: Devika Bilimoria

Image: Renee Stamatova

Image: Devika Bilimoria

Image: Renee Stamatova

Image: Devika Bilimoria

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