Avril Stormi Unger | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Say ‘Tangled’ and a popular animation film comes to mind and like the protagonist in the first part of that film, Bengaluru-based interdisciplinary artist Avril Stormy Unger, like all of us, is grappling with conflicting feelings about whether to follow tradition. Is it or not or not.
his most recent work still confused examines her decision to separate and does her last act there, patch up left.
“Untangle” Created two years ago as a video work that focused on my conflicted relationship with my hair at the time – the work was an attempt to unpack or unset internal societal expectations, and to reach a new place to be able to To be of the same unseen self-identity.
Avril discovered, “This internal process loops and every time it happens, you have new, layered insights. Although it started with my hair, as I looked deeper, it became my veered towards ideas surrounding sexuality.
Still from Untangle | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Endowed with a curly mane, Avril says she was trying to straighten her hair and fit in with standard ideas of beauty and societal expectations. “I was allowing this kind of violence on my hair and it made me think about the aspects of my life where I was straightening myself to conform; I found myself looking at the concept of compulsory heterosexuality, where everyone is assumed to be heterosexual from childhood.”
“soon after patch up, I cut my hair and it took me on a whole new journey. Now, after two years together still confusedI see what has changed this time.
According to Avril, while patch up I was trying to fit in still confused It’s more about the cost of trying not to fit in, and the power that comes with self-identity. The pros and cons, the power, the joy and the grief—all of these are navigated through in this new work.
, still confused The result of the play between two identities—straight and gay, digital and embodied, short-haired and long, pre-pandemic and post—is a result of the play I watch from afar as I navigate and interrogate these divergent spaces. for much longer.”
Maya Krishnan | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
still confused Will see Avril perform to the music of Artist Paro patch up The video, “a combination of who I am now and who I was then”, using movement-based practices and extended choreography.
The event will begin with a dialogue with theater artist Maya Krishna Rao and an ensuing interaction with the audience, followed by Avril’s performance. Still confused.
“I created this work after attending a body movement workshop conducted by Maya. As an artist and performer who also works in the fusion of sound, movement, theater and words, I thought she would like to share her practice And it would be great to invite in to talk about the process.
still confused March 18 at 6.30 p.m. at the Goethe Institute/Max Müller Bhavan. Donor passes and tickets (₹300) are available at https://imjo.in/sP3vrj