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A.Mangai 

Dome of Doom
This multi-directional journey is about inward and outward reflection and its ruptures – its central response is to section 8 of Lindbergh’s Flight, an effort to “change the world bottom-up”.

Amitesh Grover 

Making Speech With Invisible Partners
This immersive installation in VR reframes the techno-optimism underlying Lindbergh’s Flight by questioning the assumption that someone could own airwaves. It invites the audience to listen to a broadcast – sent from the future. This work unpacks ideas of control and regulation of airwaves and calls for a charter for “freeing air” from the policing and symbolic order of the public domain, while ironically placing itself in the vacuum of a virtual space.

Ayesha Susan Thomas

Lindbergh’s Daughter: Ayesha Susan Thomas

Lindbergh’s Daughter navigates questions of love, death, and inheritance through the quieter, everyday intimacy of voice notes on WhatsApp and homemade experiments with solo art. Lindbergh’s Daughter is curious about the nature of a more female experience of existentialism (if such a singular could ever exist), bound by ritual, revelation, and a return to the earth – through the aural inheritance of meaning from father to daughter.

Ranjit Kandalgaonkar

The Myth Box
The Myth Box is an interfusion of a 3D object, line drawings, archival materials from the Bombay plague, rumor-mongering bats, miasma theories, misconceptions, and histories of diseases and infections flying through the air. This is presented in the backdrop of the ‘The Spirit of St. Louis’ – the unique custom-built, high-wing monoplane Charles Lindbergh flew for the first solo trans – Atlantic flight ever; making every kind of travel possible, even for a future virus.

Soumyabrata Choudhury 

A Migrant Walk
The video and performance work, A migrant walk is a “documentary caricature” of Bertolt Brecht’s radio play Lindbergh’s Flight. The present work asks, what is our experience of the impossible in history, particularly in the wake of the pandemic announced from March 2020? The answer to this question is as real as it can get, and without a tinge of the optimistic perspective Brecht was able to invoke: today the impossible is enacted by the migrant walk across thousands of kilometers mostly on foot and occasionally supplemented by the most primitive mechanisms of transport (cycle, rickshaw, auto, scooter, etc). Hence the Migrant Walk is the real caricature thrown up by the history of the great Lindbergh’s flight dramatized with the documentary fidelity and technical intelligence appropriate to their age by Brecht. The work does not pretend to overcome the present impasse but traverse it, in the very mode of its caricatural historicity.

Venkat Srinivasan 

Memory Manifesto
In a room called Memory Manifesto, an archivist responds to the prompt of Lindbergh’s Flight by meditating on the possibilities of a moment in time. It is a play on the idea of a manifesto and an even more enduring idea – that is the archive. The objects in the room act as provocations to bring forth thoughts of poets, writers, and build on the wondrousness around the existence of the archival object.

Yalgaar Saunskrutik Manch
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Using poetry and music in the Ambedkarite Shahriri Jalsa style, Yalgaar attempts to understand the relationship between man, science, and nature in Lindbergh’s Flight. 

Zhao Chuan

Prophecies of 269 days
In this transmedial long poem, Zhao Chuan investigates the language games played in the aftermath of the 269 days that followed the lockdown on 25 March 2020 in India.

Zuleikha Chaudhari

Rehearsing Azaad Hind Radio/Instructional Work/Performing Kris Merken

This work for the “Look, here is your machine. Get in!” project is in three parts: Rehearsing Azaad Hind Radio (9 minutes extract from the video work of the same name originally commissioned for the Berlin Biennale 2018); Performing Kris Merken (6 minutes), and a 2 minutes instructional work for the viewers. This triangulated work offers a dramaturgical reflection on how technology, society, and theatre intersect in the twenty-first century.

Rehearsing Azaad Hind Radio reenacts selected broadcasts Subhash Chandra Bose made from Berlin on Azaad Hind Radio – originally 40 minutes, the work focuses on Bose’s attempt to construct a radio – culture for promoting nationalism.

Performing Kris Merken is an audition with Zuleikha Chaudhari – using texts from Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Mueller, and Achille Mbembe, the material contemplates the relationship between the virtual and the real.