‘We see whales dying and turtles struggling, yet march on’: artiste Aruna Ganesh Ram | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

‘We see whales dying and turtles struggling, yet march on’: artiste Aruna Ganesh Ram | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Dipanita Nath |Updated: June 19, 2019 11:34:42 am

‘We see whales dying and turtles struggling, yet march on’: artiste Aruna Ganesh Ram

Artiste Aruna Ganesh Ram on her new work, Under Pressure, the effects of consumerism and its environmental consequence.

The play captures our material lives into 24 actions to represent 24 hours of the day.

For 15 years, Aruna Ganesh Ram has been creating works of art that audiences can touch, taste, smell, see, and hear, from Re:play (2013-2014) in which audiences play traditional Indian games as part of the performance, to Stand on the Street (2018), about the compelling stories of street food vendors who rustle up mouthwatering delicacies while battling socio-economic challenges. At the Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa, she had premiered Memory Recipe (2016) in which olfactory impulses led audiences on a journey of food and memory. A work on gender, Coloured and Choosing, was featured in the Gender Bender Festival 2016