Central to the Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations is the marathon. A relaxed and casual urban picnic set in a hammock cafe. Here, 13 Fellows tell stories of situated practices. Each is a window to 13 different worlds. 13 inventive, funny and riotous ways to activate possible futures.

Stretching from 11am to 1am the next day, audience may come and go. Stay for as long as they desire. Leave and return again. The urban picnic ends with a feast at the Commune Banquet — a convivial chatter over a meal.

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Commune Banquet + Closing Q&A
Apr 21
Commune Banquet + Closing Q&A

Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations ends a glorious 15-hour marathon, with a rewarding feast. A meal welcomes us as our first and only intermission for the day.

Ujjwala Maharjan - My Story is Yours As Well, and If I Listen, I Can Hear Your Voice in Mine
Apr 20
Ujjwala Maharjan - My Story is Yours As Well, and If I Listen, I Can Hear Your Voice in Mine

Weaving poetry and songs from her collaborative feminist music project, Ujjwala invites you into a journey through the legacy of women.

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Etcétera - Errare Humanum Est (To Err is Human)
Apr 20
Etcétera - Errare Humanum Est (To Err is Human)

From the struggle for human rights to the defence of the rights of nature and other species, an adventure for the decolonization of planet Earth and the future of other planets.

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Sunday Obiajulu Ozegbe (Valu) - Dance as the Catalyst
Apr 20
Sunday Obiajulu Ozegbe (Valu) - Dance as the Catalyst

This presentation will be sharing the artist’s unique approach to artistic activism, while making a case for why dance can be a solid tool for change locally and globally.

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Selma & Sofiane Ouissi - The Body and Resistance
Apr 20
Selma & Sofiane Ouissi - The Body and Resistance

Drawing from their extensive body of work, Selma and Sofiane discuss the stages and strategies of the body/bodies as a powerful vessel for creative, political and social action.

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Hira Nabi - All That Perishes at the Edge of Land (2019)
Apr 20
Hira Nabi - All That Perishes at the Edge of Land (2019)

This film looks at the bodies, lives (and afterlives) and livelihoods entangled within the shipbreaking industry, and asks us to consider its costs, and to assign culpability.

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YoNoFui - A Performative Plea
Apr 20
YoNoFui - A Performative Plea

This plea attempts a different movement. We use “plea” to make it our own and dynamise its meaning.

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Aziz Sohail - Queer South Asian Dreaming and Kin-Making Through the Curatorial
Apr 20
Aziz Sohail - Queer South Asian Dreaming and Kin-Making Through the Curatorial

Aziz presents three projects “In Search of Baba Singh” (2019), “Archival Intimacies: Queering South/East Asian Diasporas” (2022) and “The World that Belongs to Us” (2023)

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Diamantina Arcoiris - Fashion With a Cause: Restoration Through Love
Apr 20
Diamantina Arcoiris - Fashion With a Cause: Restoration Through Love

Diamantina Arcoiris shares the journey and experiences of working with the individuals whose silences, self-doubt, shame, rejection and hopeless are re-fashioned.

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Chathuri Nissansala - This Land is Not Mine, Mother
Apr 20
Chathuri Nissansala - This Land is Not Mine, Mother

Chathuri invokes and harnesses a cross disciplinary performative language of speculative reclamation.

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Sharareh Bajracharya - Silences That Dissolve Into Tastes — Learning to Listen to Each Other’s Stories Through Art Education
Apr 20
Sharareh Bajracharya - Silences That Dissolve Into Tastes — Learning to Listen to Each Other’s Stories Through Art Education

We search for our silences, and subsequently create pathways in the field of art education in Nepal. We develop a taste for different ways of telling stories, listening, and sometimes magic happens.

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Radhika Hettiarachchi - Performing Coloniality: The Socio-Cultural Mindset and Sex/Work
Apr 20
Radhika Hettiarachchi - Performing Coloniality: The Socio-Cultural Mindset and Sex/Work

In this presentation documenting lived experiences in Sri Lanka, we explore how ‘performing coloniality’ impacts the everyday lives of women sex workers today.

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Marianne Fahmy - When the Sea Level Rises: Hypothesis for an Imagined Future
Apr 20
Marianne Fahmy - When the Sea Level Rises: Hypothesis for an Imagined Future

Marianne shares her ways of imagining a future to come for a city that is threatened by the rise of the sea level.

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⁠Per°Form Open Academy Marathon
Apr 20
⁠Per°Form Open Academy Marathon

Central to the Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations is the marathon. A relaxed and casual urban picnic set in 72-13.