The Tetley, Leeds and HH Art Spaces, Goa present ‘Antibodies’, a collaborative Live Art programme that celebrates performance art and migration.
Antibodies conceptually emerges across three conditions of our times. 1) The vulnerability of our bodies to disease and contagion and our susceptibility to what lies beyond human knowledge and deep in the recesses of the natural world. 2) The bodies in protest that have consistently upheld the human spirit and its claim to freedom and life. These resilient bodies have resisted the excesses of totalitarian regimes, fascist governments and climate catastrophes across the globe even as the pandemic raged around them. 3) The body as a decolonial device that embodies histories told, shared and lived, carried as wounds, stories, songs, recipes and rituals. How can this warm body be a device of reclamation instead of cold ‘archival’ processes of ‘decolonization’. How can declonization be triggered from regions it intends to decolonize, in its languages, forms and ways of life. Spread over a year, the project brought together a diverse range of cultural practitioners to rethink the body and the border, in its immediate ecology and the extended realms of myth, magic and healing. It will also attempt to nourish each other, develop antibodies and be an ANTI body that tests the limits and possibilities of languages, histories and ‘life as we know it’ - beyond the verbal.
- Mario D’souza
Set in the historic 17th Century Portuguese prison annex to the Aguada Fort, the building, the sea and its ghosts evoke a history that brings to the fore our relationship to body and freedom. Our list of artists include; Amol K. Patil, Afrah Shafiq, Bandu Manamperi, Hetain Patel, Jana Prepeluh, Joydeb Roaza, Lisa Stertz, Muhammad Shahab Sahel, Nicola Singh, Raisa Kabir, Violeta Lisboa.
India/UK Together, a Season of Culture (June 2022 to March 2023), celebrates the friendship between the UK and India. Marking the 75th anniversary of India, this cultural exchange will showcase a vibrant programme of events across music, theatre, cinema, literature, fashion and visual arts. Antibodies is one of the projects within its Science, arts and heritage in times of change programme.
Nobody knows for certain
Video Game (Unity, Custom Code, Animation, Text, Music)
Duration - Variable
2023
Don’t go deaf
Concrete pillar and hammer
Duration - Variable
2023
Facts Encountering
Performance
Duration - 1 Hour
2023
Reflex
Live Performance
Duration - 25 mins
2023
Autogeography - Story of an Endemite
Performance
Duration - 20 min
2023
A Prisoner's Dream
performance
Duration - 20 minutes (two times)
2023
Bathing in an artificial spring
performance
Duration - 15 minutes
2023
“11:11”
Performance
Duration - 11:11 pm - 11:11 am (12 hours)
2023
EACH + EVERY ONE OF US PEOPLES / PLANTS / ANIMALS insects bugs slugs mugs
Performance
Duration - 24 hours
2023
House full of Water
Antique Boat, aluminium pots, cotton, bamboo, stones, rice hooks, pulleys, jute rope, fishing rope, fishing baskets, weavings of cotton-dyed indigo, fresh water and Sea water.
Duration - 18 hours
2023
The Oracle of Forte Aguad
Fabric, Sound and words
Duration - Variable
2023