Dialogical Body – Breathing in the Ruins

This text is published as a part of Journeys of OCEAN / UNI: bárawa Open Call, accompanying the fourth session of the Fall semester—On Freestyle~improvisation as aesthetic tool and strategy.

the essay explore about my projct Muziris to Lakhapt. ....In the summer of 2023, I made an expedition to visit a fortification along the west coast of India, caressed by the Arabian Sea, encompassing five Indian States from Kerala to Gujarat. The journey aimed to collect citizen/personal data on these architectural marvels and experience the ecologies in ruins. The journey altogether was a geopolitical hack: it rectified my natural orientation towards land-sea positionalities and relationships.  

The text originally commissioned by TBA21 Academy and the project Muziris to Lakhpat implimented by India Foundation for the Arts, 2023.

Read the full essay on ocean-archive.org Dialogical Body – Breathing in the Ruins