Day 1- 5th Feb, 2011, Kala Ghoda
5pm to 6pm
BLUE
DREAMS OF WATER/ATLANTIS- Transparency
The Tarpaulin Princess
This is a game/ search.
Basic Premise -Two People- A Boy and a Girl (Tarpaulin Princess) have to look for each other. They don’t know each other, they are both wearing clothes made out of blue tarpaulin (dressed from head to toe in blue) and having imagery/portrait of the other person (will be embroidered with offwhite textured cloth and bindis) as hints on their clothes. Using these clues, and with the help of bystanders/people at the fest they have to try and look for each other. Meanwhile,since its the blue day at the street art section, they may get trapped and confused by all the blueness and they may or may not find each other.
The Concept-You have this image of a person you have been looking for, you go through life looking for the person through this picture that you have created. You find people who are close to that description and sometimes you find exactly the person you are looking for. Sometimes you get a glimpse. It’s this game of love or our idea of love these days. We are so sure of what we want that we get unsure when we find it. So this playful game of looking for each other in the street is what I’m interested in as a performance.
The Material-I work a lot with this material Tarpaulin- it is this particular blue that I associate with Bombay. I use this material as a canvas and paint on it using off white masking tape and bindis to create the imagery. So this creating clothes made out of tarpaulin and using simple characters is a natural progression from working in 2d to 3d. And this game is just a fun way to add some blue at Kala Ghoda.
So Please come to Kala Ghoda on the 5th of Feb, by 4.30, the performance starts at 5pm. Come look for the Tarpaulin Princess. Be a part of her search. Let her find what she is looking for or not :)
