Homeward
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| Room 314: Religious Art of South Asia |
| 12 years and older |
| English |
| 3rd floor |
GERMAN PREMIERE
Drifting clouds, restless birds and a lonely ambassador of humanity:
A multisensory collage of family migrations: leaving the nest, returning in cycles, or sent into exile. In this interactive performance lecture myths meet memory, and salt meets the sky. This postcolonial storytelling tells us about planetary aches, and entangles us with ecology through scents, sounds and taste.
Flamingoes are not born pink: their color is borrowed from the world they consume. The Jacobin Cuckoo has probably never flown over the Church of the Jacobins in Toulouse. The Golden Record contains greetings to the universe in 55 different languages from the earth.
Yet, have you ever tasted rain as it falls?
Created and performed by: Nitish Jain
Dramaturgy: Ine Ubben and Katja Vaghi
Sound design: Raaghav Dhingra and Saurabh Levin
Scenography support: Tiber Yilmaz
Nitish Jain’s artistic practice crosses the mediums of performance art, architecture, storytelling and making objects. Interested in exploring non-visual aesthetics, he invites audiences to sense rather than see art by incorporating touch, taste, smell, listening and vision in different ways. His approach with the senses draws from phenomenology and the Indian rasa aesthetics (denoting essence, flavor or evocative phenomena). Nitish makes multi-sensory experiences with his artistic company Studio MoreThanThat. His works have been featured at various international festivals, regions and communities across Czechia, Germany, Norway, the UK, UAE and India; serving as a sensory antidote to politics of hate, race and gender. Nitish Jain was fellow of the International Forum of the Theatertreffen Berlin Festival 2024.