Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Terreform
Terreform Director Vyjayanthi Rao participated in the 3rd Kochi-Muziris Biennale as a member of the artist collective Samooha. Read her article about their installation On Stage: Sathenagar Here.
“While Mumbai’s informal communities are always available to the gaze of the privileged, we observed they rarely occupy the most privileged stages as protagonists themselves.
The intention was not to create a museum-like programme to display the talents of a single community but to allow a community’s public expression, long trapped in specific forms of public discourse around protest and rights, to take flight on another, more universally visible stage.
We named our project “On Stage: Sathenagar Here” to bring visibility both to the community as author and to the concept of the stage, which operates on multiple levels to support the community as author.”
