Watch the Interesting Conversation
between
Dimple b shah and Waswo Wasow X
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Prayers of Shaman -Invoking Healing Goddess
Magdalena:On:line
Bodies:On: Live
Performed Live on 25th June 2021
Prayer of Shaman –Invoking healing goddess is performance, shamanistic ritual act. It is to establish an image of the pandemic goddess who is a healer. Performer attempted to embody the body through a ritual turning into the Goddess of Pandemic. The performer's body facilitates transmuting the message to her and in the process becoming Goddess herself.
I carried on my head the image of the goddess which was a 'Mirror' that would reflect the image of the audience who is interacting with the goddess and there the transformation happens where the audience expects to see the image of a goddess instead they see their own reflection. here the audience takes the position of the goddess and I think everyone has the ability to achieve that state of sacredness and I facilitate to make it visible to my audiences.
The healing happens through various herbal healing plants. The performance deals with my audience through online interaction it will have an impact since every individual has their own psychological and emotional and physical concerns. My work is to build and inspired by the goddess image from my cultural roots but not directly portray it just hinting at my connection. Seeing pandemics from the past one and half years and the critical situations in India I feel like recreating this act again with one more version. This performance was cathartic and transforming not only to the audience but also to me as a performer.
'Nature is a healer' forms a very integral part of my performance and I used natural alchemical and medicinal plants Sacred Plants which are curative and have a lot of health benefits like Ajwain, ajowan, or Trachyspermum Ammi—also known as ajowan caraway, thymol seeds, bishop's weed, or carom, Neem Leaves, (Tulsi) Holy Basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum), Kama Kasturi l ( Ocimum basilicum). Tumbe plant (Leucas Aspera) and as part of invocation ritual I sowed Seven Scared grains for goddesses. These grains constitute Goddess's. It is an offering to evoke her to invite her to our ritual. Prayer was offered to form a secret exchange in form of voice modulations. It was an experiential to both me and my audience a kind of spiritual and healing journey.
In my performance, I had incorporated symbolic object which can metaphorically represent the goddess image but not a religious symbols. It is an artistic exploration to fight this pandemic, to experience catharsis, and create a healing space where both audience and myself can undergo transformation. I shared a recipe to prepare a tea portion that has medicinal benefits and heals. Dimple B Shah 11 May 2021 Please note it was a different version from the earlier created work.
Dimple B Shah 25th June 2021
Friday, June 25, 2021
Prayer of Shaman - Invoking Healing Goddess
Bodies :on: Live
Magdalena :On: line 2021
From 24th June to 27th June 2021
Prayer of a Shaman is a performance shamanistic ritual act. It establishes an image of the pandemic goddess who is a healer. The performer attempts to embody the body through a ritual into the goddess of a pandemic. The performer body facilitates transmuting the message to the goddess and in the process becoming goddess itself. The healing is done through various herbal plants. Usually my performances deal with my audience through one-to-one interaction since every individual has their own psychological and emotional and physical concerns. My work is inspired by reference of goddess image from cultural roots but not directly portrayed, it just hints to the reference of my cultural roots.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2021
THE HEALING TOUCH OF BAMBOO: SOUL, MIND AND BODY
FOR 4TH GLOBAL ONLINE EVENT OF BE-COMING TREE https://becomingtree.live/
The scent of dried bamboo leaves slowly merging inside.
I wished there was sound to be heard of these leaves, deep earthy scent
I go deeper and deeper the scent draws me closer to it.
I want to sleep within this mound of dried bamboo leaves, o bamboo tree!
What a gift o bamboo leaves I can contemplate with you for hours .... you are healing ...
Kalpavirkha a Divine Tree
In Becoming tree session 4. Before Lockdown announced I had planned to work with the bamboo tree and its leaves which is found in abundance on-studio campus, Art village in Bangalore, and wanted to reconnect to this Divine tree which has great power of healing Soul Mind, and Body.
But weekend lockdown announced and no vehicles were to reach but I had planned to do a performance in an Indoor space in my home which is also my studio. The situation in India was very critical then and now there is no beds, no oxygen, and no Ventilators. it is very critical at present. So I planned to get three huge bags of Bamboo dried Leave from the artist's village studio, So on performance day, I created a whole backdrop suitable for performance and I performed with dried leaves.
It is a common belief in several Asian cultures that humanity emerged from a bamboo stem. In some parts of India, bamboo is also called Kalpavirksha (divine tree in Indian mythology fulfilling all the needs and desires) due to its numerous uses in daily life in physical as well as in spiritual form. The first direct reference to bamboo Indian literature is in “Rig Veda” (5000 BC) “Bestow upon us a hundred bamboo clumps”. Bamboos are symbolic of constancy, fidelity, integrity, and purity (Farrelly 1984) and also inspire the emotional and spiritual life of many people.
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Dimple B Shah 5th May 2021
Monday, May 3, 2021
Public Performance Symposium- Out of Site Chicago
A Lecture by
Dimple B Shah
Live Art in Bangalore ( Karnataka, South India )
Formation, Development, and Expansion
https://www.flowsymposium.org/lectures
The talk focused on performance art/ live art its initial years of developments from Installations, experimental movements in public spaces with social concerns as a major area of concern it matured state, and expansion over the span of two decades.
The Performance art scene in Bangalore (Karnataka) became visible and grew organically since 2000. Bangalore in Karnataka has become the nucleus for Performance Art in India. The Bangalore art scene has always been known for its experimental approaches be it Installation art, Performance Art, or New Media art, It is pioneered as the most happening place in India. we could observe a good deal of groundwork and mature evolution of the performance art scene in Bangalore. With numerous experiments in public spaces,
those were based largely on social issues as a core concern. Many artists
participated in these events doing both interactive and installation work. Bangalore has made a major contribution to this field right from its
early period. These attempts resulted in bringing forth new materials, forms,
language, and space. Individualist, collaborative, and connecting with land,
communities, and public spaces – artists of Bangalore with determination and
restlessness responded to their inner calls. Not only installations but also
Performance and Sound art found expressions here in those early times.
Dimple B Shah 23rd April 2021
Negotiating Rituals- Power of Feminine Energy and Body Practice Based Performance Workshop
Negotiating Rituals -Power of Feminine Energy and Body
A performance Workshop in Three sessions
From Devi-Mahatmya:
By you this universe is borne, By you, this world is created, Oh Devi, by you it is protected.
From Shaktisangama Tantra:
The woman is the creator of the universe, the universe is her form; a woman is the foundation of the world, she is the true form of the body.
In woman is the form of all things, of all that lives and moves in the world. There is no jewel rarer than woman, no condition superior to that of a woman.
By you this universe is borne, By you, this world is created, Oh Devi, by you it is protected.
From Shaktisangama Tantra:
The woman is the creator of the universe, the universe is her form; a woman is the foundation of the world, she is the true form of the body.
In woman is the form of all things, of all that lives and moves in the world. There is no jewel rarer than woman, no condition superior to that of a woman.
This performance workshop was a quest to understand and identify the power of Feminine energy /Shakti. The performance workshop will be a process of mind, body, soul to evoke, emerge, and contemplate the feminine energy. Attempt and understand the image of the feminine in our structure of society conflicting state of feminine energy present in both sacred and no sacred state/space and finally arise to one single form of the identity to the feminine Energy. It is a psychosocial paradigm shift present and past how this supreme female energy which is Reflected nurtured to fit the need of society at point placing in most sacredness and other level abusing in a non-humanistic way. It was to study and analyze how this ‘feminine energy' fitted in the cultural/religious context over the period. In what way it emerged, associate, and fit in cultural and religious rituals.
Re-questioning the appropriation and augmenting. To recognize and to celebrate this Feminine form in a psychological /spiritual /body-mind parameter. The workshop will metaphorically connect to yoni /Garbo (womb), where the ritual directly connects to celebrate the power of feminine energy.
The making of the Durga idol starts from collecting clay from prostitutes' place. It is one of the signs where feminine energy is respected and revered in all form sacred non-sacred forms. Different parts of India celebrate this feminine power in different ways. As per the mythological stories, the feminine power /Shakti has 53 0r 108 Shakti Peetha's (Shakti Temples spread across India where each part of a body of Shakti fell when she was cut by Vishnu each body part now becomes the place of worship called as Peetha's. There is a various manifestation of these feminine energies like Durga, Bhiaravi kali Lakshmi Saraswati this feminine manifestation celebrated in their divine forms. The feminine energy becomes the central force of creation visible in the form of Nature and earth.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
In Search of Antidote- Intercepting Psychosis
New P.E.P.A. Pequeño Evento de Performance Art ONLINE on Sunday, January 31 at 7 pm Madrid Time (1 pm NY Time) with the participation of invited artists:
DIMPLE B SHAH in Bangalore (India)
FAUSTO GROSSI in Bilbao (Spain)
SANDRA CORRIGAN BREATHNACH (Ireland)
After the performances, we will host a Q&A, in ENGLISH, with the invited panelist ANDRE STITT, moderated by VERÓNICA PEÑA and ANALÍA BELTRÁN i JANÉS, curators and organizers of P.E.P.A. ONLINE.
P.E.P.A. ONLINE is offered by P.E.P.A. Pequeño Evento de Performance Art (Madrid) and P.A.O.C. PERFORMANCE ART Open Call (New York City) with the collaboration of Acción!MAD, and Pedro Déniz.
In search of Antidote-Intercepting Psychosis was proposed work for PEPA it was about it is a process to find an antidote understanding the subconscious thoughts through various ritual processes. These rituals inspired by my cultural shamanistic practices which are incorporated in my work with profound metaphoric connotations. The idea is to undergo an experiential cathartic effect on both my audiences and me.
Catharsis, Purification, Healing, Filtration, and Condensation & Extraction of Pure Self are essential elements in my works. Through various approaches which are Ephemeral, Spontaneous & Interactive in Nature. Key areas of my concerns have been Humanitarian, related to War, Crimes, Migration, Women's issues, and Socio-political, Psychological and Philosophical aspects. All these thoughts go in the process of Distillation (psychologically/ physical) relating to concerning issues. Collect the research material and the sources to finally, extracting a purified element out of it. It helps in the process of healing.
My work encapsulated with Process of Distillation metaphorically may be applied to all areas of concerns/ issues addressed in works like socio-political, Ecological, Environmental, Psychological, Philosophical and Existential questions about Life &Humanity.
As an individual who is part of a social structure, a self who has to navigate through repercussions of socio-political upheavals, develop perspicacity on related human issues, and on a personal level of existence coping with an emotive response of alienation, insecurity, fear, the by-product of our "Post Modern" era. The duality of exploration reflects the concepts underlying in works. I outline my art practice as Multidisciplinary as my art practice has evolved through practice in various mediums like Performance, Printmaking, Painting. My focus has been to blend this medium of art into an interdisciplinary language.
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