Forplay Society

Presenting an elaborative set of music from EARTHGRIME’s discography and upcoming release, BLACK KOMODO’s upcoming album and their collaborative works, the night is expected to be a blast of evocative hiphop …

An artistic screen printing project, which includes the installation of a temporary screen printing workshop. The aim of the project is to use classical screen printing in combination with contemporary content for a project in public space. Textual as well as photographic models, which above all raise socio-cultural questions about social contexts and critically question them, will be exposed on screens and printed directly in public space. Overprints of poster surfaces, wall or glass surfaces, as well as specially produced canvases, wooden surfaces, etc., can be used. This kind of direct reference to the found underground transforms every public surface into an artistic starting point, inviting critical and aesthetic reflection.

We collaborate with Delhi based Graviky Labs for this workshop. Graviky Labs developed an air-ink which is produced out of collected air-polluting carbon particels which are filtered out of contamined air in Bangalore, Delhi aso. Making and using this ink for the prints in public space is a perfect tool of reflecting our circle of resources and circle of memes – and what we could do concerning art in public space.

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Andreas Ullrich

was born 1977 in Freiberg, Saxony, East Germany and studied Law, Photography and Media Arts at HGB Leipzig, Germany. He is a master scholar of the class for Intermedia, Prof. Alba D ́Urbano. Working in the field of media art for more than 20 years, he has organised several independent art spaces such as C.Rockefeller Center for the contemporary Arts Dresden and Theatre Impermanent, Leipzig. He runs a publishing house International Neighborhood Publishing in Leipzig, a seriegraphy studio in Dresden, die siebdrucker.de and a media lab for experimental design, publishing and artistic projects: WILDSMILE STUDIOS. He is part of the arts&culture track of the chaos computer club Germany and organises miscellaneous exhibitions about digital transformations and new media. He is the head of the association DRESDEN CONTEMPORARY ART and hosts several Artist-in-Residency programmes, in collaboration with Meetfactory Praha, Goethe-Institut, the City of Dresden and so on. His artistic work concentrates on art in public space, printmaking, media art and conceptual photography and has been shown in many international and national exhibitions in museums and independent art spaces alike, such as GRASSI MUSEUM, Leipzig, KUNSTHALLE EXNERGASSE, Vienna, Gallery Q, Kopenhagen, Version Festival, Chicago, Hill Hacks Conference, Dharmasala, TATUM Festival, Ulan Bator, AZULATO Festival Kampala, Uganda, PRINTED MATTER New York Art Book Fair and many more.

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Sudeep Kumar Puthiyaparambath is a Theatre artist, Bharatanatyam -Indian classical dancer, contemporary dancer, and yoga guide whose work is unique in that it freely traverses between the traditional and contemporary. He has vast experience collaborating with prestigious choreographers
like Navtej Singh Johar, Justin McCarthy, Bharat Sikka and Ben J. Riepe. The work of Sudeep Kumar Puthiyaparambath is characterized by a strong and provocative poetry, between drama and irony that is interviewing beauty with moving statements. His expressions become more than a beautiful arrangement of moving bodies on stage and he is pushing those boundaries of tradition and contemporary dance with every creativity. He continues to develop his own vocabulary of dance and movement using his physical theater background, classical Indian dance, sounds and the skills from yoga that searches consequently for new aesthetics and ways of expression; digging deeper in our consciousness and testing the edges of abstract yet touching creations. Active and currently working with Ben J. Riepe Kompanie since 2012.

Yoga : A long time student and practitioner of yoga, he worked and trained 7 years in yoga therapy under Navtej S Johar. He did his two years of teacher training at Krishnamacharya Yoga mandiram Chennai, and has been teaching yoga for 15 years around the world.

Sudeep’s teaching follows the detailed practice in asana, pranayama, and meditation as he creatively adapts and weaves mantra, Vedic chanting, visualization along with ancient techniques. His course of instruction is therapeutic, self-reflective, compassionate, and cognizant to the uniqueness of each individual. Sudeep has conducted several yoga workshops around the world. He has visited and taught at different universities such as Oxford University in the UK, Aarhus University in Denmark, and Sri Shankaracharya Sanskrit University in Kerala, Central University of Kerala.

Dhruti is a trauma therapist, theatre artist, writer, and creative and authentic movement practitioner, rooted in the field of somatic wisdom. She has over 14 years of experience in the healing arts, including ancient indigenous Dreamtime therapy, traditional eastern theatre practices, transformational bodywork, and hands-on energy medicine, to hold and nurture a safe and gentle space for all human emotions, stories, and experiences.

Albin Weber; Soldering electronic instruments and noisemakers “CircuitCircle” – behind this synonym stands Dresden-based musician and media artist Alwin Weber. Participants in the workshop use soldering techniques to create various electronic instruments and noisemakers.

Amit Venkataramaiah; The workshop is designed for training the sensitivity of the ear and make a small custom object to generate soundscape. By testing the resonance of all the found objects through contact mics, the participants will see how each of the sounds go with each other and what the possible soundscapes can be to develop sonic sensitivity. Finally by developing a DIY instrument and soundscape of the participants choice.

The Forplay Society is a contemporary art project of the C.Rockefeller Center, Walkin Studios and Forplay Productions and the workshop program is conducted with our partner Kochi-Muziris-Biennale / ABC Program at the Biennale workshop area at Cabral Yard, right outside Aspin Wall.

Alwin Weber (Electronics/Germany) and Matthias Heckmann (Drums/Switzerland) are serving a live improvisation flavoured spicy enough. Using local ingredients in the form of field recordi”ngs contrasted by a drummer spooning in some of his most intimate vocablary of spices the duo will host a live cooking session which you can expect to result in some earthy, sharp, bitter, sweet, and fiery tastes.

Free Admission

The workshop will start with short exercises on visualizing in 3d (real life)- using everyday objects and talking about aesthetics in the 3d space. Then we will walk around Fort Kochi and find materials from the road, second hand stores and junk yards. Though the materials will be mostly metal, the participants can add other things that complement the sculpture. There will be a basic introduction to welding, where the participants will build the parts of the sculpture using the materials they have procured. The general subject of the sculptures will be about second lives and finding new meanings through these upcycled objects. This workshop will also be about making in collaboration, looking at the idea of ownership and collective creativity.

Venue: Art Room at DLF Cabral Yard
Time: 10 am to 5 pm

From Dec 24 th to Jan 14th Surjith Sumathi Gopinath, actor and theater director, will be artist in residence @ Forplay Society and will develop a solo play that will be performed in and for the space. We will announce the data of performance here ….

3 hours live from Forplay Society in Fort Kochi (India) via Cashmere Radio in Berlin.
Hosted by Maximilian Glass who is in company with Seljuk Rustum, Andreas Ullrich and Ajmal Shifaz.
We will create stories while talking about pictures, listening to objects, playing cassettes and diving into noises.

FM 88.4 MHz Berlin (Germany) / 90.7 MHz Potsdam (Germany)

Tune in @ cashmereradio.com

Forplay Society & Fire Museum present Kapila Venu – Devi Mahatmyam Nangiar Koothu

Episode – Mahishasurajanananam – The birth story of Mahishasura

Accompanying Artistes
Mizhavu – Kalamandalam Rajeev, Kalamandalam Hariharan
Edakka – Kalanilayam Unnikrishnan
Thalam – Saritha Krishnakumar

Ensemble – Kottichetham Kutiyattam Ensemble