Performance art week 2016

Shahnewaz Kamal Ripon & Arafat Ahsan

The Performance Art Week 2016 featured, 20 artists of different background are being performed. The open program schedule to take place in three different venues: Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Daily Star-Bengal Arts Precinct and Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Bidyapeeth. Today`s program was held at the Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Bidyapeeth where six artists were performed on intense and complex issues.

Brommah Akhon Ghumaitachen ; Photo: Ripon

The event organized by the Visual Arts Program of Bengal Foundation.  Sumana Akther`s “Five Minutes for Sundarban`` was the opening performance of the day, using a vast amount of coal and tied each big fraction of coal with white cloth by sitting on it.

2^nd performer was Reetu Sattar  a folk singer performed ``Isn`t It Time to Let Me Go`. She used caged crow, a heart, many taxes with wet floor while song was sang in background. `` Brommah Akhon Ghumaitachen``by prominent artist Niloofar Chaman was marked as third performance of the day. She used many elements like a white cloth laid from top to bottom of a stair, eggs, apples and moreover audience also a part of performance which make it installation. 

Waley Jaff presented `` A Conversation With Rock`` using a big white cloth as canvas to write the conversation and writings went top to bottom by using a ladder sometimes it overlapped with previous writings in which audience might find surreal intense. Then Meherun Akter came with her ``Self Conversation``. It was a self-obsession of a woman who often wears many cloths and does makeup like an unstable mind in the idea of women sorry state.

The last performance was `` An Invisible Man`` by Atish Saha. Many fill up sack which entrances was tied were kept in wet floor. All on a sudden a sack got some movement, assumed inside a human but it was invisible because of sack which represents it`s also a sack of trash like others. This performance was a part of artist`s experimental series based on object and time focusing on our perception of things and body language.

The program is organized with an aim to look into the multiple complexities of the ephemeral medium of performance arts and its cultural and socio-political influences through discussions, performances and exhibitions.

The documentations of Performance Art Week 2016, the program will also hold an exhibition titled ``ephemeral: perennial`` exploring the mediums and possibilities of documenting performance art. The exhibition will be inaugurated by Professor Syed Manzoorul Islam and art critic Professor Md. Abul Monsur at Daily Star-Bengal Arts Precinct on January 6.