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, 2023
DEBUT XIX
Blindside Gallery, VIC
29 Mar–22 Apr 2023
Ramak Bamzar, Devika Bilimoria, Christy Chudosnik, Hugh Crowley, Jordan Koudmani, WooJai Lee, Ming Liew, Katie Paine, Michelle Tonkin
Instigated by pouring, bowing, throwing and placing, Offerings merges shared gestures across chance methods of art-making and ritual worship into an accumulative performance installation that sees an assemblage of raw materials on a voided floor space for a prescribed duration. The work is choreographed by a game of dice that generates countless seven-word 'offering scores', where Devika successively offers a singular material substance with their body into the void. In this work, the materials and gestures are prompted by Devika's elapsed experiences of the Hindu worshipping ritual, pūja, but are also of a quotidian and sanctified register.Stimulated by randomisation, this chance-based performance 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 with sincerity, sometimes absurd.
To see more of this project visit DEBUT XIX.
To hear more about Offerings listen to this RRR radio with Devika and Priya Namana interviewed by Samira Farah.