AR(t) comes alive at French artist Aurélien Jeanney’s latest augmented reality exhibition Looki Look 

AR(t) comes alive at French artist Aurélien Jeanney’s latest augmented reality exhibition Looki Look 

Entering the art gallery holding my smartphone upright, finding the perfect angle to observe the pieces through my camera is not how I expected to look at art. As I inched slowly towards an exhibit titled Pool Party or Aquanouba in French, a piece of mysterious music began to play from my phone, followed by […]

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Musician Nadaka on the geet-taar a string instrument he crafted his fascination for Indian classical music

Musician Nadaka on the geet-taar a string instrument he crafted his fascination for Indian classical music

With a cheery  vanakam, musician Nadaka settles down in the lobby of Hotel Residency in Thiruvananthapuram to talk about his music and the geet-taar, a 24-string acoustic instrument that he created. In Thiruvananthapuram, for a concert,  Geet-Taar & Taal, with Illyas Khan on the sarangi and Chandrashekhar Ravindra Gandhi on the tabla, the French-Canadian musician who lives in Pondicherry, says he […]

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Ekalavya Performing Arts’ Kalakriti 2023 celebrates mime and theatre

Ekalavya Performing Arts’ Kalakriti 2023 celebrates mime and theatre

Director Bodhisatta Sarkar  | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Ekalavya Performing Arts (EPA), a theatre group in Bengaluru, presents Kalakriti 2023 — a collage of mimes and drama directed and designed by theatre actor and director Bodhisatta Sarkar. The two-part festival is called Mute and Unmute. “Some parts are mime and others theatre,” explains the director. The mime […]

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