Set in an open-air kitchen, constructed to host but not serve food, artists come up with a range of ‘other’ offerings to concoct, serve, feed, and nourish our souls. The artists take turns to conceptually cook, sometimes overlapping, and other times in a participatory potluck.
Curated by HH Art Spaces and led by Yuko Kaseki (Japan/Berlin), Uriel Barthélémi (Paris), and Suman Sridhar/Black Mamba (Mumbai), the programme brings together distinct yet intersecting practices. Kaseki’s Butoh dance-based work inhabits the space between physical and spiritual presence, embodying the figure of the outsider through poetic gesture. Barthélémi’s polymorphic practice examines improvisation, the physicality of listening, and sound as a political and psychological force. Sridhar moves between experimental music and popular cinema, fusing jazz, Indian classical, opera, and spoken word to explore transformation and healing through sound. Together, the performances reference the act of feeding – ideas, bodies, and forms – as gestures of connection and communication. Moving between metaphor and ritual, the performances are framed as an antidote for the love-stricken, mourning, and celebrating.
HH Art Spaces began as a movement of artists in Goa in 2013, shape-shifting and growing over the years as it occupied several homes and formats. With live performance and sonic arts at its heart and through the format of gathering and hosting, HH has always been about forging relationships, and creating a circulation of artists and ideas even when borders across the region have failed us.
Soho House is a global member community shaped by culture and conversation, founded in London in 1995 as a home for the world’s creatives. Cities Without Houses membership brings cultural practitioners across the arts together through programming, building long-standing relationships in cities before a House arrives, fostering opportunities for creative exchange in India, and around the world.
Please inquire at the info desk and our website for the timings of the performances.