paddy fields to proscenium and beyond

Temporality is an inherent phenomenon of any process based engagement where the site becomes a host of a performative relationship between space, material and body.This can be ritualistic and also a constructed relationship where experience of making and viewing takes different frameworks according to the physicality of the space.I engage with scenography as an integrated interdisciplinary method of visual and cultural engagement. In this respect representation of space becomes a site of reconstituting socio cultural context from a multiple point of view of a research based engagement with material, memory and physical experience. Design becomes a method of de-signing existing phenomenon of space and participate in the existing demography of a space to reconstitute memory as an interface of structure, construction and material as an archive of collective consciousness. Whether it is a white cube of a gallery, or a public site like museum or a public place or a proscenium stage or any physical space I engage with its specificity and participate with its politics of representation to constitute a new site of encounter of multiple materials. I look at scenography as an extension of installation art towards a wholistic encounter of material, process, performance and viewership. In many occasions I engage with direct object and explore a pluralistic relationship by transforming its relationship with the performer and the viewer into a multiple encounter of metaphorical relationships with body and space. The notion of material may vary from textiles to direct objects to light to reproductions to projections. I often recycle material to incorporate its individual memory as a direct content in the work. In the process I follow the character of the material to derive a method of construction that becomes the site of encounter for both visual and performance relationship  towards an integrated form of presentation. Scenography is a tool to engage with the viewer directly as an interdependent relationship of time, space and environment.It is a collaboration with the director, performer, the light designer, music director, the costume designer and the carpenters. A reciprocal process of making and learning together towards a pedagogical encounter