Duration: Approx 2 hours
This project conceived of with Khoj International Artist’s Association and in collaboration with Anand Grover takes the form of a staged hearing before a Commission of Inquiry (with two lawyers and a judge) debating the question of how to measure loss, premising art as evidence and artists as witnesses. The project has an iterative format with each successive version engaging with a different ecological issue and a changing roster of artists.
The first iteration of the project, staged at the Constitutional Club of India on 7th April 2017 and opposing the then recently cleared River Linking Project, was developed with Navjot Altaf, Ravi Agarwal, and Sheba Chhachhi.
Cast:
Petitioner 1: Khoj InternationalArtists’ Association
Petitioner 2: Zuleikha Chaudhari
Judge: Justice Yatindra Singh
Counsel representing the State: Anand Grover
Counsel representing the petitioners: Norma Alvares
Artist/Witness 1: Ravi Agarwal
Artist/Witness 2: Navjot Altaf
Artist/Witness 3: Sheba Chhachhi
Court Master: Zuleikha Chaudhari
Stenographer: Sukaina
Credits:
Direction and dramaturgy: Zuleikha Chaudhari
Legal Consultants: Upendra Baxi, Shantanu Sood and Arpitha Upendra
Petition: Mihir Samson and Seema Kumar
The second iteration of the project, staged on 16th December 2018 at the Press Room, Old GMC Building, Goa (part of My Color on Your Plate, curated by Subodh Gupta for Serendipity Arts Festival). The hearing, which opposed the construction of a luxury resort on village property, was developed with Kedar Dhondu and Vishal Rawlley.
Cast:
Petitioner 1: Khoj International Artists’ Association
Petitioner 2: Zuleikha Chaudhari
Judge: Justice Yatindra Singh
Counsel representing the State: Anand Grover
Counsel representing the petitioners: Caroline Collasso
Artist/Witness 1: Kedar Dhondu
Artist/Witness 2: Vishal Rawlley
Court Master: Zuleikha Chaudhari
Credits:
Direction and dramaturgy: Zuleikha Chaudhari
Video: Radha Mahendru
Petition: Mihir Samson
