16.Dec. -20.Dec 25 Possible Futures: The Play Protocol

Possible Futures is a Hyderabad-based young artists’ action group exploring experimental, process-led, and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary art. Working across performance, research, and collaborative practice, the collective focuses on how bodies, memory, and lived environments shape artistic inquiry. Their projects often unfold as open-ended encounters, foregrounding dialogue, care, and shared methodologies, while creating platforms for emerging voices and new forms of artistic presence.

Coming with:

Anjali Sadanandan (@the_art_by_anjalisadanandan)
Anil Dayanand (@anildayanand66)
Aparna Ashok (@apsi_ashok)
Bhanu Shrivastav (bhanu_shrivastav)
Banda Suresh (@sureshbanda_)
Harsha Durugadda (@harshaduru)
G. Vignesh (@rolling.moon)
Shivam Kumar (@thenawadawala)
Murari Jha (@murarijha_practice)

Antibodies Collective (JP) Live at Forplay Society 13.12. + 14.12.25

Revolutionary Practice for Living Free In The Cruel World

Opens 13/12/2025 at 7PM
Free for children and students
Others on Donation to the space

Second show 14/12/2025 4:30 PM

Our practice is not a task of remembering or preserving. It is a challenge: How can everyone involved in the performance live this present moment and space more concretely, more essentially. It connects this inquiry and experimentation to actions within the defined temporal and spatial framework of the stage, weaving a collective network of relationships. Our practice is a cycle of contemplation and action capable of creating and transforming itself. The essence of this art lies in the “spontaneous complex system” that emerges within the practice of practice itself, and in seeking solutions to various problems within that understanding.

“ANTIBODIES” is a collective of specialists with the idea of developing new interdisciplinary models for dynamic collaboration across spectrum of disciplines and boundaries. We examine how varied disciplines might relate, intersect and interact through series of experiments and researches that are designed to culminate into performance events, community workshops and other practices that contributes to larger social and educational structures. “ANTIBODIES” was established in 2015 by Kyoto-based performance artists Yoko Higashino and Toshio Kajiwara as a reincarnation of “Dance Company Baby-Q”, a genre-bending dance theatre group established in 2000 and have presented performance events and workshops worldwide.”

Poster & Design By Nikhil K C @nikhilkc_

14. Dec 2025 7:00 PM Dirk Wachtelaer / Dirk Johan Stromberg / Fabio Rambelli LIVE AT FORPLAY SOCIETY

14/12/2025 7:00 PM
LIVE AT FORPLAY SOCIETY

OPEN FOR ALL / DONATION

Dirk Wachtelaer / Dirk Johan Stromberg / Fabio Rambelli

Dirk Wachtelaer — Belgian drummer & improviser working across jazz, rock, electronic, African & Asian music, and sound art. His performances span traditional, extended, and aleatoric techniques, forming immersive sound worlds.

Dirk Stromberg — Multidisciplinary artist working with free improvisation, custom instrument-making, and live production. His creations reflect a dialogue between artistic philosophy and design, shaping unique sonic experiences.

Fabio Rambelli — Multi-instrumentalist (shō, sax, flute) exploring improvised music in diverse contexts. His work seeks immersive, transformative sound-bathing experiences and embraces collaboration across disciplines.

Poster By Amjad @am.aamjad

Forplay Society program starts Dec 13th with Dance Theater Performance & Concerts

We open Parallax at @forplaysociety on December 13th with the @antibodiescollective, followed by an opening week of performances, installations, and workshops by Dirk Wachtelaer, @dirkstromberg, @fabio_rambelli, @talesofus.initiative, Maximillian Glass, @zf_kapturd, and others.

We’re excited to share this vibrant line-up of artists with you. A few names couldn’t be included in this announcement, but we’ll be releasing another update soon.

ARTISTS: Antibodies Collective (JP), Salmanul Farizi (IN), Hartmut Dorschner (DE), Dirk Wachtelaer (BE), Dirk Johan Stromberg (SG), Fabio Rambelli (USA/IT), Jagannathan Sampath / DIN Is Noise (IN), Navya Rudrappa (IN), Maximilian Glass (DE), Jyoti Nisha (IN), Tales Collective (IN/DE), Elom 20ce (TG), Aami Atmaja (IN), Alok Vaid Menon (IN), Joffy Chirayath (IN), Surjith Sumathi Gopinath (IN), Around The Sufrah (IN), Sradha Culture Lab (IN), Yenting Hsu (TW), Voin De Voin (BG), Antje Engelmann (DE), Sarah Burger (CH), Susanne Weisse (DE), Anton Stoianov (DE / BE), Julian Weber (DE), Iv Toshain (AU), Johannah Herr (USA), Eva Meyer / Eran Schaerf (DE), Rosemarie Trockel (DE), Nia Pushkarova (BE), PPKK (DE, GR), Galina Dimitrova (BE), Jeanette Groenendaal (NL), Mariana Tancheva (NL/BG), Sandra Zanetti (USA), knives aka Mihika Bedi (DE/IN), Ajmal Shifaz (IN), Gregor Kasper (DE), Musquiqui Chihying (TW), Sandip Samadhar (IN), Wang Yu Wen & Lin Jui Yu (TW), Ya-Nung Huang (TW), Payal Arya, Aditi Kulkarni (IN), Sourav Brahmachari (IN), Ruchir Diwedi (IN), Ninad (IN), Debanshu Bhaumik (IN), Amyth Venkatramaiah (IN), Kaldi Moss (IN), Vineesh Amin (IN), Elena Pereira (IN), Shah Ifra (IN), Salman Baba (IN), Khursheed Ahmad (IN), Advika (IN), Tina Van de Weyer (BE), Afrane Makof (GH), Banana Apparatus (IN), Anil Dayanand (IN), G. Vignesh (IN), Suresh Banda (IN), Harsha Durugadda (IN), Aparna Ashok (IN), Deborah Geppert & Felix Ermacora (DE), Lucie Freynhagen (DE), Marcel Joseph Victor Kieslich (DE), ZK/U Proxylab (DE), Sofy Yuditskaya (USA), Andreas Ullrich (NL), Sebastian Rietz (NL), Otto Snoek (NL), Articultural society (IN), Andrea Hoffmann (DE), Alwin Weber (DE), Ibrahim Quraishi (DE), Steffen Koritsch (DE), Kitchen Alchemy – A Sensory Archive of Childhood, Memory & Home (IN), RE-ACT Collective (IN).

FORPLAY SOCIETY 2025/26 – 6. Kochi Muziris Biennale Collateral

We are proud to announce that FORPLAY SOCIETY will be part of the upcoming 6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale Collateral Program. Once again, we will host workshops, performances, installations, artist talks, and introduce new formats for showcasing independent artist collectives, speculative art forms, and all kinds of playful interventions.

This year, we are exploring new ways of organizing and collaborating as an independent, artist-run, self-proclaimed institution — one that operates as a cross-continental platform for contemporary, multilateral co-creation.

To make this possible, we have brought together a diverse team of curators, artists, and activists, and have invited projects from Japan, Germany, Belgium, Taiwan, Ghana, the USA, Switzerland, and many more.

These organisations are collaborating, contributing and cooperating to make this possible:

C.Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts

Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

Kochi Muziris Biennale Foundation

Savvy Contemporary Berlin

Walkin Studios

Forplay Productions

DresdenContemporaryArt

Filmfest Dresden

We will announce our program from Dec25-March26 shortly here.

FORPLAY SOCIETY Manifesto 2025

Forplay Society is not a venue. It is a rehearsal for another way of being together.
It is a space in flux—where the act of gathering is as important as what is made.
We are not here to entertain, but to hold space for questions. Our interest lies not in perfection, but in presence—in the texture of being together, in all its silence, contradiction, awkwardness, and disagreement. We understand play not as escape, but as a method: a way to inquire, to resist, and to transform. We resist the pressure to produce something “worth watching” instead of something worth feeling. Forplay Society is an invitation—not to consume, but to contribute; not to arrive polished, but to arrive willing. It is a space built not by reputation, but by participation. This is not the end result. It is where we begin.

it’s a means to gather, to process and to make sense of our world together to co-create a culture that centers generosity, collaboration, curiosity and mutual care.

Forplay Society is a space for collective creation, shared exploration, and mutual vulnerability. We reject rigid boundaries between artist and audience, expert and amateur. Everyone who enters this space is a contributor. We value process over product, embracing the unfinished, the experimental, and the in-progress as vital expressions of artistic life. We are committed to accessibility and openness—not just in who is allowed to enter, but in how we share knowledge, tools, stories, and experiences. We believe cultural spaces should not be reserved for the privileged few, but open. We invite you not just to attend, but to contribute, collaborate, challenge and change.
This is a space we make together.

April 1st, 7pm: PAPPISORAI theatre

Papisora ​​is an expression in the Attappadi Irula language. Everyone joins together to welcome a good time with drums, songs and dancing.. To that good time, two people who go forward through the stage, start their life journey together from the stage itself…
Through Papisora, we are adding new hopes and dreams in our theater/life ahead…. Those little birds who have become an inspiration to us with the dream of a journey where everyone gets together are starting to fly with theaters…

Cast and credits

#Onstage: Malu & Mamo

#Shadow puppetry : Sunathi AS

#Music    : Narayanan & Sharath

#Direction: Aliyar Ali

https://in.bookmyshow.com/plays/pappisorai/ET00355623