f/1/ Scorched Earth/ f/2/Scorched Bread/ f/1.4/Colocasia esculenta/f/2.8

Performance
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Foundation Initiatives

Directorate of Accounts

Ground Floor

15th December

06:00 PM - 07:00 PM

In this performance, Pinak Banik presents hunger as a structural condition embedded in the social, material, and cultural practices, a biopolitical regulation, particularly around body, sustenance, and survival. Everyday acts of nourishment carry histories and knowledge that are often invisible. In an attempt to liberate the invisible from the burden of expectations of visibility, this is a session of storytelling on ‘loud silences’ about vernacular food practices of Bengal and the synesthetic effect of an outdated camera manual.

Subsisting on fringe vegetation, foraged greens, and marginal yields, culminating in acts of preparation, consumption, and a ceremony that encode scarcity, improvisation, and gastropolitics in the the longue durée of hunger in the Indian subcontinent.

Artist: Pinak Banik