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Awaiting for the Golden Goddess

Nimatala Ghat , KIPAF ,Kolkata 2014

Last performance of the event KIPAF was performed by me in
Nimtala Ghats where the cremations are done near river bank of
holy Ganges. The performance was about mass healing where
myself and my audience the common public were healed in
ritualistic act by showering Golden turmeric on me and in
exchange I distributing turmeric root to heal my audience. This
performance was comment and concern on issues of rape
especially the rape case which happened just two week before the
event in Kolkata. The girl was raped twice by group of men’s who

raped her second time because she went to lodge a complaint to
police and ultimately burnt to death. I felt the need of Hour was to
heal body and minds of people who were traumatized with such
news and also who are affected by such act. It was also to Sensitize
to act and think. I wore a costume which was dyed in turmeric
water I also used multiple audio with speaker this was further
supported by hundred of clay tea pots which were tied and
dragged along the lane, street meant to be broken, crushed and hit
as I walk with it. These pot is use to represented women condition
in more broader sense, where they are used and thrown, in
contrary by nature of material it demands at most care as they

are fragile, sensitive they also represent women as womb, fertility
symbol especially in Guajarati and Bengali culture the clay pots are
lighted in Gujarat during Navaratri Festival they are called as
‘Garabo’ womb celebrating mother and women power.