REST (A SELF ORGANISED RESIDENCY), by TENT: a School of Performative Practice(Amsterdam, NL) and Chetna Mehrotra (Mumbai, IN).

We feel that the art-structure doesn’t give space to artist to rest and reflect. While talking about the reflection, care and rest the artist community in India itself is too busy to find the survival.
Although some of the artists do find residency support from the Western corners, they are expected to move to the host countries for work and work for the benefits of the benefactors rather than the art itself. As a result all the efforts and energy of the artist is spent in complying to the agendas of benefactor and leaves no space for art exploration. We felt a need to create structure, which can support artist to maybe rest, to reflect, to evaluate or to envision their futuristic artistic practices. Thus REST, supports four Indian artists, to get support for a self organised residency in any part of India. REST will sponsor the residency expenses.

The Residency has on-board Kristýna Ilek as a s dramaturge and a conversation partner. She is a dramaturge, theatremaker and researcher, working between Europe and UK. She did her Masters in Theatre Studies from the University of Glasgow and then Masters in Dramaturgy from the University of Amsterdam.


Collaborative Partner:

TENT: a School of Performative Practice

is a space of possibility and imagination, which invites all(most) to come in. It is a temporary and mobile space of mutual learning and collective imagination.

TENT is an open space, body and structure.It is a space, where we can imagine, try, converse, think and create all the possibilities, which we can not do in other spaces and institution.
In past or at present TENT has been supported or invited to and by Gessnerallee Zurich, Santarcangelo festival, Italy, Institute of Advance Studies, University of Minnesota, USA, DAS Theatre, Amsterdam, Radialsystem, Berlin, Montage Modus Berlin

About: Chetnaa Mehrotra

Chetna is an Artist and Cultural entrepreneur based in India. She is the founder of Rangbhumi.

In her artistic practice, she creates the idea of Multipartiality in a dialogic medium, mostly by inviting conversation to engage constructively in the transformation of the social fabric. For the past two years, she has been engaged with multiple international artists, collectives and institutions, to create a network and space for intercultural knowledge exchanges.