The storytelling corner of the festival returns...
For the 2024 edition, we collaborate with Canadian curator and writer Raji Kaur Aujla to present six chapters illustrating a story on Reflexive Futures.
They envision an India where cultural narratives are reimagined as collective, experimental terrains for interwoven queer, fluid, and feminist identities to shape the future. This theme fosters speculative visions that challenge inherited power structures, using archival practices, embodied performance, and collective storytelling to assert inclusive Indian futures. By decentering dominant narratives and inviting marginalized voices to transform spaces, this curation explores India as a “becoming,” where each identity and experience deepens a forward-looking, pluralistic consciousness that is simultaneously local and globally resonant.
The speakers aim to guide audiences in rethinking belonging, community, and the intersections of past and potential worlds through curated spaces that reflect experimental gatherings rather than prescriptive identities. The festival, thus, becomes a sensory, collaborative medium—a site for imagining unbounded cultural possibilities that honour tradition while redefining contemporary India.
Curated by:
Raji Kaur Aujla
Speakers:
Imdad Barbhuyan, Aakarsh Choubey, Ridima Khandelwal, Amrit Khanna, Kenneth Lobo, Kripi Mandov, Mandovi Menon, and Shwetal Ashvin Patel
