LILA Bearing Witness: The Imperfect Cloth - An evening of visual art-music-dance with Priya Ravish Mehra, Minakshi Thakur & Parash Moni Dutta at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 4th March 2015

Time : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 04-03-2015 19:00:00 04-03-2015 20:30:00 68 LILA Bearing Witness: The Imperfect Cloth - An evening of visual art-music-dance with Priya Ravish Mehra, Minakshi Thakur & Parash Moni Dutta Event Page : http://goo.gl/EdkwLE Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Venue : Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
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'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)Exit Gate-1' - Walk Direction
'Khan Market(Violet Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description : LILA Bearing Witness: The Imperfect Cloth - An evening of visual art-music-dance with Priya Ravish Mehra, Minakshi Thakur & Parash Moni Dutta.

The evening opens up the art of Priya Ravish Mehra, artist-weaver, by delving into different aspects of her work through dance, music and words. Priya’s artistic journey, from chasing the pure aesthetic in her earlier days, was transformed by a life-threatening cancer, an experience which would drastically redefine her approach to art practice.
Her extensive research into the century-old tradition of darning, which hid the defects on clothes through the meticulous care of the invisible darners, then becomes the predominant motif in her work. The art of mending damages on the cloth by the Rafoogars (darners) is reinterpreted as the act of restoring the fragility of the body and healing the wounded soul. But by then, it also becomes vital that the imperfections show on the work of art. The concept of beauty thus enlarges in scope, bringing the emphasis on detailing flaws.

Music, movements, and words weave a compelling narrative around an artist whose artworks are not only aesthetic creations but also poignant remnants of a body that underwent repair.

The evening will progress as follows:

Minakshi Thakur & Parash Muni Dutta

Jhini, Jhini Bini Chadariya… A song of Kabir, accompanied with a movement in dance

Rizio Yohannan Raj in conversation with Priya Ravish Mehra

Weaving an Artist

Minakshi Thakur & Parash Moni Dutta

Why are you so silent? Poetry Recital, accompanied with Dance and Enactment

Rizio Yohannan Raj in conversation with Priya Ravish Mehra

The Tearing and the Healing

Minakshi Thakur & Parash Moni Dutta

Kabir song continuation, accompanied with Dance and Enactment

Rizio Yohannan Raj in conversation with Priya Ravish Mehra

The Sharing

Presentation by Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada on Boro and its dialogues with Priya’s work

Participants:
Minakshi Thakur is a Vocalist, Writer and Books Editor.

Parash Moni Dutta is a Dancer and Theatre Artist.

Priya Ravish Mehra is an Artist-Weaver.

Rizio Yohannan Raj is Writer and Founder of LILA Foundation for Translocal Initiatives.

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