Forplay Society

Amirtha Kidambi “takes a holistic approach to singing, which can mean treating every element as unfixed: Words can be opened up, rendered nonspecific. Melody can be repeated and frozen and stuck in place. Markings of rhythm can become utterly abstract, freed from cadence.” (New York Times). Kidambi is the composer and bandleader of her quartet Elder Ones, with Matt Nelson, Max Jaffe and Nick Dunston and the leader of her vocal quartet Lines of Light, featuring Anaïs Maviel, Emilie Lesbros and Jean-Carla Rodea. Kidambi is also a regular collaborator of Lea Bertucci, in a voice and analog electronics duo, is a member of guitarist Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl, featured in various projects with composer and alto saxophonist Darius Jones, a longtime contributor of Charlie Looker’s early music inspired dark folk band Seaven Teares and a soloist in Pat Spadine’s analog percussion and light ensemble Ashcan Orchestra. She has collaborated and performed with New York luminaries in the experimental and creative music community including Tyshawn Sorey, Matana Roberts, Ingrid Laubrock, Maria Grand, Brandon Lopez, Daniel Carter, Sam Newsome, Trevor Dunn, Ava Mendoza, Matteo Liberatore and veteran improviser William Parker.

Ananya Ganesh is an improvising pianist and vocalist.

https://ananyaganesh.bandcamp.com/album/precis-loving-2

You can book tickets here:

https://in.bookmyshow.com/events/amirtha-kidambi-ananya-ganesh/ET00348527

A devised solo performance by Savita Rani @binoosmile

‘Notion(s)’ as a concept emerged from the efforts to understand the socio-political situations occurring all around the world. We are connected to the world mostly through our defined identities and keep using all kinds of notions to defend, save and amplify our identities influenced by the socio-economic power equations based on religion, region, caste, gender, complexion, race, nationality, color, body structure etc. Hence, Notions are the very important aspect of the power structure that never allows us to interrogate or question the contemporary functionality of notions within us. Notions like purity, superiority, strength and power are getting traded in this business run by our respective societies. And it becomes extremely difficult to address these notions as they are intangible. Can we see them? Can we figure them out? Can we stop them? This invisible enemy is growing and getting bigger at an astounding pace, every passing moment. And it is churning and growing inside all of us, without any exception.

TICKETS ON BOOK MY SHOW

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Santhi Priya gives a glimpse into the enticing sound of Baul Music. Santhipriya is a baul singer. Srimati Parvathy Baul from west Bengal is her Guru. She also learns Kabir songs from Guru Prahlad Singh Tipaniya. The words of the Guru in song form is what deeply moves her. She is from wayanad, now lives in Thiruvannamalai with her husband and son. Bauls are wandering minstrels of Bengal. They are the carriers of the songs which are called mahajoner pad, the songs of the great souls.The songs are words of wisdom that one can hold on to in life and find refuge on times of hardships. They guide one who is interested to an inner search where the baul says one can meet the moner manush. The man of the heart.

Tickets on https://in.bookmyshow.com/events/santhi-priya-live-at-forplay-society/ET00349073

Nasir’s work draws on what is around him, what he sees and experiences, as a person living, in a space which does not lead itself easily to simple generalizations, where it is easy to forget that justice exists or that goodwill and trust continues to exist in the daily exchanges between people, even as time hangs like a penal sentence and hope is scarce.

The beauty of the landscape is as deceptive as it is engulfing. In his childhood, Nasir saw his grandmother ignite the Lantern, go out at night, and look around the lawn to check that everything was ok. The family would retire peacefully only upon her return, after she had  extinguished the light. For Nasir, carrying the lantern for the past six months in public spaces is an act guided by childhood memories of safety and well-being that grew complicated by the situation around him. The lantern mediates this conversation between two extremes, one of safety and growing dread.

Carrying a lit lantern during the day is redolent of the parable of the madman in Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, who is accosted in the marketplace for doing the sameand cries – “God is Dead”. The scene invokes the landscape Nasir inhabits and the penal colony it resembles.

His performative act provokes a questioning similar to Nietzsche’s madman.

in Kashmiri language – Free admission

An Evening of Poetry & Comedy

ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker. As a mixed-media artist their work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public (2017), Beyond the Gender Binary (2020), and Your Wound/My Garden (2021). They are the creator of #DeGenderFashion: a movement to degender fashion and beauty industries and have been honored as one of HuffPo’s Culture Shifters, NBC’s Pride 50, and Business Insider’s Doers. Over the past decade they have toured in more than 40 countries, most recently headlining the Vancouver Just for Laughs Comedy Festival and selling out their runs at the Soho Theatre in London and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They are currently on a world tour of their new show which has been described as “provocative and powerful” (Chortle), a “Potent combination of comedy and poetry” (The Scotsman), and a “Jaw-dropping celestial event” (To Do List London). On screen, they will make their feature film debut in Absolute Dominion. On television, they have appeared on Netflix’s Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness and The Trans List.

tickets: https://in.bookmyshow.com/events/alok-vaid-menon-live-at-forplay-society/ET00347474

The Berlin based sound artist Maximlian Glass will perform live at the Forplay Society on dec 20th! Free admission // Donation

Maximilian Glass is a Berlin based sound artist, improviser and composer. He interprets playback devices as musical instruments, creates feedback-systems and plays objects. Beside solo, duo and ensemble concerts he works on installations and as a free radio artist in scenarios of site-specific interactions.

Maximilian Glass has been activ as curator since 2014, establishing new concert and performance formats and experimenting with and in installations and exhibitions. From 2018 to 2021 Glass was working on the artistic direction of SEANAPS Festival (Leipzig). Since 2019 he is co-creator at NNOIFestival (Zernikow). Furthermore he runs his own imprint called DAIZY & HOLY, a compilation featuring 26 international artists who crossed his paths was released in 2020.

http://maximilianglass.com/

Today at 6 PM @forplaysociety Karla Matus, Sofy Yuditskaya, Amyth Venkataramaiah, Dirk Wachtelaer, Maximilian Glass, Nodhar Akhulediani. Free admission.

Opening: 14.12.2022 6pm

Currently bangaloREsident at Walkin Studios in collaboration with Goethe Institut Bangalore
“CONTENT CONTENT – The Puja” is a video installation by Lucie Freynhagen for the public space in Bangalore and Kochi. The work reflects its medium and its surroundings while misusing popular propaganda, consumerism, as well cultural related strategies, to generate own dreams and (des)illusions. The multiple contextual layered and self empowered artistically Puja to the public, the city and our time itself, tries to negotiate beliefs around technology, media and their general promises and therefore to create awareness for a clueless revolution. The work was created during the artist’s current residency program and fuses her own work with material that were generated together with Indian artists, as well set pieces from her current web series project ContentContent, on which she is collaborating with Caroline Beach and Joseph Hernandez, as well as many other artists.

ContentContent is a media performance about the urgency of making art at the “end of the world”, or at the end of a collection of shifting realities that make up the dreamscape of late capitalism. ContentContent reflects the premise of the frenzied internalization of information in contemporary society by constantly slipping back and forth between different forms of representation. The format alternates between the stiffened and sterile presence of TedTalk-like discussion and intrigue of a musical, which is a complex, non-linear behemoth performed mostly by non-human actors at dizzying emotional heights. Overall, it takes a hard look at the paralysis of a generation caught in a post-ironic feedback loop involving gamification, memeification and instant wish fulfillment through algorithmic predictions. ContentContent has no center and no end. This mystery is buried in the children of the 90s themselves. This dichotomy threatens to boil over with chaotic emotions and desperate convictions. ContentContent is used to highlight truths that have shaped the last decade, such as the ever-increasing sense of isolation within a capitalist society, the values that are spent above all else, or the growing amount of existential angst inherited by each successive generation as the planet hurtles towards certain doom through unbearable amounts of carbon dioxide. To look at contemporary society through the lens of the traditional musical is to see the tension between the things we want from existence and the things we have to deal with in order to achieve and elevate them.