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4:00 PM, IST

Listening Where Trees Lament: A Soundwalk/Workshop on Malarkey

Workshop|A workshop with Anish Cherian and Padmanabhan J

  • Mehrauli Archaeological Park

Travelling Plants - Workshop. © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi

Travelling Plants - Workshop © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi


The workshop will begin at Mehrauli Archaeological park with a walk and end at FICA. As a participant, you are requested to bring your laptops/ipads and a pair of earphones as you will be working with sound.

Registrations are open for this workshop. Write to Programme.Delhi@goethe.de to confirm your participation.

This workshop extends the perfromance by Anish Cherian and Padmanabhan that took place at the opening of the exhibition. The performance was a multi-media performative reportage that showcased humanity’s transgressions – biological, legal, and scientific – and how it transgressed the human condition and opened up ways to envision a world other-than-human.

The workshop extends the performance into a collective process of listening, recording, and reimagining. Participants are invited to walk with the duo in Mehrauli Archaeological Park, where we begin by listening to talking trees lamenting over Malarkey. As participants engage with the soundscapes and visions into this other-than-human world, Anish and Padmanabhan will offer provocations that will encourage them to record sounds, voices, and fragments of text within the archaeological park.

These recordings form the basis for new narratives, which will begin to shape together back in the studio using simple editing tools. Each contribution is then integrated into the evolving soundscape at Mehrauli, situating the participants’ work directly into the project. The workshop is both an exercise in attentive listening and an exploration of the absurd and inexplicable elements of our world. It opens a space to question the everyday through sound and narrative, and to add new layers to the ongoing investigation of malarkey.

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The exhibition Travelling Plants also includes a visual installation of FIELD-NOTES FROM THE DISCOVERY OF MALARKEY AND ITS TRANSGRESSIONS by Anish Cherian with soundscapes by Padmanabhan J that is installed at FICA Reading Room.