The Conference of Anti-Apocryphal Beings
Medium: Performance
Duration: 45 mins
Venue: Forplay Society, Bazaar Road
Time: 4:00 PM | 8 Feb 2o26
Artists:Rabia Mohi-ud-din, Basit Qadir, Rahil Sajad, Razwan Ahad Lone, Rayees, Lubna Bashir, Zainab Bashir Mir
College:Institute Of Music & Fine Arts, University of Kashmir
‘The Conference of Anti-Apocryphal Beings,’ a group project created by students at the University of Kashmir, gathers various figures from local mythology, such as Rantas, Dyev, Yachh, Agar Pachin, Atid, Bram Bram Chok and other half heard whispers, warnings, and doubtful tremors of mis-remembered presences. They arrive from Kashmiri folklore, mythology, rumor and contemporary anxieties that travel across mountains and checkpoints refusing every category meant to contain them. These beings inhabit the unstable borderland between memory and imagination, myth and history, fear and play; and they claim space not through verification, but through presence. Each holds a truth that cannot be archived, fear that cannot be contested, memories that cannot be contained, and experience that cannot be spoken of, to refuse erasure, apprise of collective unease and survival of a people.