Drop-in Sessions
Give me a pen and paper and I’ll tell you how I feel
Smitha Cariappa
How much does your body hold?
How much does it endure every day?
Have you ever paused to wonder?
We invite you to come pause with visual and performance artist Smitha Cariappa’s “Give me a pen and paper and I’ll tell you how I feel”. Contemplate the capacity and frailty of the human body. Smitha will be seated for 5.5 hours, continuously writing found poetry, responding to the postcards that are on display at our exhibition, Hello & Goodbye: Postcards from the Early 20th Century. As the scroll of paper falls on the floor, you are welcome to pick up any part and read.
This is a chance to recall the older days of snail mail, waiting for the postman to deliver a letter, and remember the feeling of writing on your notebook instead of typing away on a screen. You can immerse yourself in the visual exhibition alongside Smitha’s performance art.
Drop in and take a few minutes to wonder about the capacity and frailty of our bodies.
Smitha Cariappa
Smitha Cariappa, is an interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Bangalore. She has a post-graduation in painting from College of Fine Arts, Bangalore. Cariappa loves trekking, exploring cities and the countryside on foot and has done a series of self-documented performative walks in isolated landscapes. She is interested in culinary art and often employs food as a medium and prop in her performance, installations and video projections. Additionally, her artworks are informed by retro/ urban fashion, urban gardening and animals.
She is the recipient of multiple national and international awards and residencies such as the Commonwealth Arts Award (1997/98), the Swiss residency in Aarau (2007), and the Ozu residency in Rome, Italy (2008). She has presented her artworks at various international performance art festivals in India, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean islands. She curated the International Live Art Festival in Bangalore in 2011 and started Live Art Lab in 2012. Her works and interviews have appeared in various international articles.
