Projects
Speculative Devices for a deaf Sound Arts
A recurring image haunts all of my work, often becoming the centerpiece on stage or in my writing as a mysterious device for another type of hearing each other and the more-than-human through a range of materialities. My dream persists: now a surreal hearing trumpet that is part aid, part telephonic, part steam punk, and part bamboo and paper, it becomes more resonant, more fully figured. This device would open up to the hearing of things that manifest themselves as the echoes and shadows—audial as well as visible—of what we experience. Such a fantastical instrument would activate a hard-of-hearing futurism, a method for hearing differently, and as an object that is also a playable instrument that opens toward a performance ecology yet-to-come.
(Concept: Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren; Artist Rendering: Pournami Chandra)
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The Body Remembers the Mountain Project
The Body Remembers the Mountain Project explores ways to activate a form of ecological imagination of and for the mountains, particularly in relation to South Asia and across a global network. Intercultural collaborations help articulate the ways that performing bodies experience the mountains and can re-orient our sensorialities toward more-than-human. Unless we tap into such sensibilities that open up our ecological togetherness towards a new horizon of understanding, it is impossible to be responsive to the threatening climatic changes we encounter globally.
Wild Studios Consulting and Creative Production
We are focused on the co-creation of transformative synergies, partnerships, and innovations towards more hopeful practices and capacity building towards our shared futures in ways that advance diversity, equity, parity, and opportunity for all. Our aim is to create new approaches to dialogue, creativity, collaboration, and responses to vexing problems in ways that embrace both the local and the global.
Folded Paper Dance and Theatre
Folded Paper Dance and Theatre (Hong Kong; India; Seattle, 2009-2024) was committed to generating work that links performance, heritage, ecology, disability, and our cultural futures. It explored how dance and theatre in its many forms—from ritual, classical, vernacular, social to the experimental—acts as a kinesthetically collaborative mode of experiencing, mapping, and transforming cultural heritage (and other) sites. These undertakings energize and transform our relationships with each other. They also impact our experiences of urban spaces and the natural world across a range of site-specific locales, build greater cultural understanding, and generate exploratory spaces for change.