Fwd: Amsterdam based artist Abhishek Thapar performs in Bangalore: 21st January @ Untitled Space
Mayank Rungta
From: Veena Basavarajaiah <veenabasa...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 1:49 PM
Subject: Fwd: Amsterdam based artist Abhishek Thapar performs in Bangalore: 21st January @ Untitled Space
To: Mayank Rungta <mr....@gmail.com>
Abhishek Thapar, born in East Punjab in the 1980s, went on a search for the truth(s) of the past when he decided to travel to his hometown Moga. Together with his mother, father and sister, he re-visited his childhood home: a house that had disappeared, a place they all thought they had forgotten and which yet persisted, preserved in a jar of haunting images, between the conflicting priorities of official histories and the personal memories of three generations. In a final pursuit of closure, the family returned to the house and moved back in. Together they created a work of art...
My home at the Intersection complicates reductive perceptions of Punjab’s recent history, producing an
imagination that goes beyond dichotomies of perpetrators and victimhood, outside and inside, terrorism
and resistance. In the intimate setting of his performance, Abhishek Thapar unfolds moments from a
personal journey into a contorted past in dialogue with documents from an attempt of a ritual of - ‘going
back, to make sure that you have forgotten about the past.’
About the Artist: Abhishek Thapar (1985, Moga) holds a post-graduate diploma in Physical Theatre from LISPA, London and a Master in Theatre degree from DAS Theatre, Amsterdam. Currently, he is building an artistic research and practice in post-colonial epistemologies, historiographic metafiction and storytelling.
Written and Performed by Abhishek Thapar
The play is co-produced by DAS Theatre, Amsterdam and TIFA, Pune
Details of the performance
Space: Untitled Space, J.P Nagar
Date: 21st January, 2018
Time:7:30pm
Tickets: 250/- ( Available on www.bookmyshow.com ) also available at the venue on the day of the performance.