I hope to rediscover freedom of speech

March 20, 2024

Varun Narain interviewed in BLIKK magazine

Varun Narain is a queer puppeteer and live performance director from India. He combines modern and traditional puppetry and works on articulating gender fluidity and sexuality. Narain has taught Puppetry and contemporary communication at Jamia Millia University for over 10 years, as well as at the Guru Gobind Indraprastha University in New Delhi. Moreover, he has a degree in botany and through his artistry he explores intelligence and survival strategies in the natural world. This month the Norwegian magazine BLIKK, that publish current queer news online, made an interview with Varun Narain. Read it in Norwegian here: I hope to rediscover freedom of speach

 

Tara Abdullah: The Girl from The Cigarette Factory

Through painting, performance, installation, and public interventions, Tara Abdullah gives visibility to silenced experiences. Transforming personal memories into collective encounters, her work explores themes of shame, displacement, resistance, and liberation.

erformance, installation, and public interventions, Tara Abdullah gives visibility to silenced experiences. Transforming personal memories into collective encounters, her work explores themes of shame, displacement, resistance, and liberation.

erformance, installation, and public interventions, Tara Abdullah gives visibility to silenced experiences. Transforming personal memories into collective encounters, her work explores themes of shame, displacement, resistance, and liberation....

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