We invite you to the Bangalore premiere of ‘
Still Tangled’ - a performance by
Avril Stormy Unger. The evening also features Avril in conversation with
Maya Krishna Rao, where Maya will share some of her work and process.
"Creating a temporal loop between two identities, straight and gay, digital and embodied, with flowing tresses and chopped close, pre-pandemic and post-pandemic, Avril Stormy Unger interrogates the nature of change in her new performance ‘Still Tangled’. What has actually changed when we’re driven to exclaim “I’m a whole new person”? Avril disrupts the visual and aural realm of her video work ‘Untangled’ (2020), with a recently evolved set of gestures, cradling, reeling, entangling the viewer through this intimate meditation on the passage of time." - Shaunak Mahbubani, Curator, Allies for the Uncertain Futures.
© Avril Unger
Avril Stormy Unger's practice is rooted in performance. Her work is informed by personal experience using movement and expanded choreography as a way of healing recurrent (collective) traumas surrounding queerness, gender, sexuality, abuse, religious oppression and pattern based behaviours. Her work is impulsive, experimental, unbound by discipline and manifests through a multidisciplinary approach. Care work, community and co-creation are crucial to her arts practice.
Her most recent works include 'Almirah', a solo show exhibited at 1 Shanthi Rd, Bangalore (2022), 'Don't Explain' at STIRworld, India Art Fair, New Delhi (2022), 'Mirage' and 'Untangle' at Embodied Arts Festival at Oyoun, Berlin (2021). Avril lives and practices between Goa and Bangalore, India.
© The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art
Maya Krishna Rao is a theatre maker and teacher. Her performances range from dance theatre to stand up comedy. Over the years she has collaborated with film makers, sound and object designers to create cross media performances. Her productions have travelled to many festivals at home and abroad. Maya has been teaching at NSD and other universities for several years. At the Shiv Nadar University, she designed and taught a Diploma programme in theatre in education - a first of its kind in India.
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