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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CEREMONY [I], presented by Future Ritual
Safehouse 1 + 2, London
23 June 2024
Marilyn Arsem, Sandra Johnston, Helena Goldwater and Devika Bilimoria
On the midsummer weekend, Future Ritual presented CEREMONY [I], a day of durational performances in a pair of dilapadated Victorian houses in South East London. Slow actions by artists unfolded in long form performances evocative of memory, decay, and endurance. As the year turned, we invited long breaths, attuning with these old spaces, and inviting reflection and connection.
This is the thrid installment of Offerings. It is a durational performance installation structured as a ritual-like game of dice. This work collapses shared gestures found across chance methods in art and cultural rites in an activation of randomised choreography with sanctified materials. Here, the substances and gestures of the Hindu offering ritual pūjā are enfolded in a task-based procedure where Devika generates and enacts successive ‘offering scores’ derived from ritualised and quotidian attributes in a perpetual act of offering. The work explores immanence, indeterminacy and suspension by invoking randomisation as an instrument of agitation in an attempt to commune with the haunt of embodied cultural inscription, agentic matter and entangled lineages—to reimagine what is given.
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