Samooha has created an interactive installation, reflecting Sathenagar’s spatial conditions and experiences in a by-lane that leads from one of Fort Kochi’s main thoroughfares to the seafront promenade.  This installation is animated with audio, video and photographic materials created by residents of Sathenagar to address the world they will encounter at the Biennale. It serves as a stage within the larger stage of the Biennale to explore how one might relocate flows of language, heritage, tradition and practice embedded tacitly in every life into this self-conscious space for exploring creativity.  The bamboo frame is an incubator, a mechanism to organize and orchestrate open-ended possibilities for collective engagement created in a material that initiates settlement in informal communities across India.

Alumni Shantanu Poredi (FA, ’88 batch) and Manisha Agarwal (FA, ’90 batch) have been involved in Samooha – an informal, interdisciplinary team of seven, including –

Santosh Thorat & Jameela Begam Eathakula (community leaders from Sathenagar)

Shantanu Poredi, Manisha Agarwal, Anand Patel & Aparajita Basu (practicing architects)

Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli (cultural anthropologist specializing in urban studies)

Samooha – http://studioanugraha.com/Samooha-Kochi-Muziris-Biennale-2016

CEPT Article – https://cept.ac.in/news/cept-at-kochi-muziris-biennale