The People

CORE TEAM

 

Karen D’Mello 

Dreamer. Facilitator. 

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Charulatha Dasappa
Project Manager. Ideator. Facilitator.

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Suchaita Tenneti 

Dramaturg. Researcher. Facilitator. Content Writer.  

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Aakriti Chandervanshi

Visual Designer. Website Developer. Photographic Documentation. Creative Content Creator.

 

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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

These are the pseudonyms and bios of our participating artists:

 

Jeisi Amawasa

Jeisi Amawasa is a lawyer and artist who is making baby steps in figuring out how to use art as a means of social change.

 

Lavendar Hippo

Lavendar Hippo is a Female, Dalit Theatre maker, actor and Theatre facilitator from Bangalore. Her goal in the theatre is to create meaningful, exciting and impactful conversations with the help of performances. Most of her previous work is centered on collaboration and sexual identity. She believes that the world runs on collaborations and stories and the ultimate collaboration is the theatre and remains optimistic about what the future holds for the theatre.

 

Khwabida

Khwabida is a Literature and Art enthusiast, not of any specific art form, but whatever speaks to Khwabida's soul. Urdu Poet, Feminist and a firm believer of a 'live and let live' way of life. A fiercely independent individual coming from a small town conservative family, being a rebel and not conforming to the norms is what Khwabida's life has been all about.

 

Loki

Loki identifies as a cis-gendered woman belonging to upper caste location. Being a lawyer by education and dancer by training has caused many intersections to happen for her.

Presently, Loki is trying to explore the pedagogy of classical dance training and designing a new curriculum in classical arts, and also curating an arts programme for children in education. She is very interested in the politics of the form and its history. Loki is extremely interested in inter-disciplinary approaches, methods and collaborations that provide space and agency for her co-creators and audiences.

 

Misfit Medusa

Misfit Medusa lives and practices in Bangalore/Mysore. She is a self-taught artist and illustrator by night and a professor of English by day. 

She works with diverse materials, both traditional and digital to speak about politics, gender, identity and sexuality. Her recent explorations have been in the field of digital collages dealing with subjects such as body dysmorphia and menstrual health. 

 

Morty Smith

Morty Smith is a 22 year old female dancer and artist. She is intrigued by the unfathomable yet fundamental aspects of life such as love, violence, greed, despair, pain etc.

Above all, she cares greatly about how she can live her life without causing much harm of any kind. Morty Smith also has a small business called EekaFika for handmade wire jewellery.

 

Shams

Shams has a million hobbies that she does half-well that define her, but career-wise they're a journalist. They're also Muslim, and queer, and generally love photography and printmaking.

 

Gulla

Gulla’s artistic practice deals with issues of disembodiment and alienation with digital communication systems and its correlation to mental and physical health in our current contemporary techno-capitalist society. Using humour, her work draws inspiration from personal experiences. She works with Sound, Video, Performance and Drawing on paper.

 

Street Store Dolls

Street Store Dolls aka The Mannequin is a celebrated spoken word poet who is at the forefront of the burgeoning Bangalore poetry scene. Alongside sharing the stage with eminent personalities like Shashi Tharoor, Sarah Kay among others, he has mentored more than 100 student poets across the country.

 

Z

Z began writing poetry as a way to stay grounded through exploring her own thoughts and feelings. She observes that in her writing practice she tries to go deeper into the nature of what unsettles and what uplifts her, and attempts to express it in a way that is honest, specific and minimalist.

 

Haribo

A 19-year-old miniaturist from Kolkata brought up in Bangalore, Haribo is most proficient in the language of clay, and also dabbles in drawing, sketching, needlepoint, threadwork, woodwork, paper manipulations and mixed media. Haribo's currently studying design and hopes to pursue set design and decoration in stop-motion and other films. 

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