Homeward
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| Info: Artist Talk with Nitish Jain, Cris Moreira and Stéphanie Mwamba on Dec 6 up from 10 pm at Mechanical Arena hosted by Kerstin Ortmeier |
| Info: Room 314: Religious Art of South Asia |
| Suitable for: 12 years and older |
| Which languages: English |
| Venue: 3rd floor |
| Belongs to: Transkontinentale 2025 |
GERMAN PREMIERE
Drifting clouds, restless birds and a lonely ambassador of humanity: Homeward is a multisensory collage of migrations—leaving, returning, circling, or being cast into exile. Through stories, objects, scents, sounds, and taste, this interactive performance-lecture searches for plural ways of family and home through a more-than-human lens. Flamingoes borrow their colour from what they consume; cuckoos don’t raise their own children, and the Jacobin Cuckoo has likely never flown over the Church of the Jacobins in Toulouse. The Golden Record carries human greetings from the Earth, and the salt in your last meal migrated across geological time.
Can a longing to let go co-exist with a yearning to root?
Created and performed by: Nitish Jain
Dramaturgy: Ine Ubben, Katja Vaghi and Sima Djabar Zadegan
Music: Raaghav Dhingra and Saurabh Levin
Scenography and Production Assistance: Tiber Yilmaz and Lidia Teleki
Nitish Jain’s artistic practice crosses the mediums of performance art, architecture, storytelling and making objects. Interested in exploring non-visual aesthetics, he invites audiences to sense rather than see art by incorporating touch, taste, smell, listening and vision in different ways. His approach with the senses draws from phenomenology and the Indian rasa aesthetics (denoting essence, flavor or evocative phenomena). Nitish makes multi-sensory experiences with his artistic company Studio MoreThanThat. His works have been featured at various international festivals, regions and communities across Czechia, Germany, Norway, the UK, UAE and India; serving as a sensory antidote to politics of hate, race and gender. Nitish Jain was fellow of the International Forum of the Theatertreffen Berlin Festival 2024.