Maya Chowdhry

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#repost @castlefieldgall ・・・ ⭐️ OBSTRUCT #repost @castlefieldgall
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'Hello!

My creative practice is participatory and explores environmental justice, from climate change to seed sovereignty. I create immersive and democratic experiences for participants, drawing from creating work in Installation, radio, poetry, video and online. My current work uses the online space for transmedia storytelling, digital poetry and augmented reality artworks. 

Due to the pandemic I was unable to present my live art piece - ‘What’s Eating Reality?’at Leeds International Festival this year. I relished the opportunity that ‘Obstructions’ gave me and in particular the gift from @alenaruthtufting to remake the work. 

‘What’s Eating Reality?’ is an immersive live dining experience, commissioned by @lancasterartsuk It utilises digital participatory theatre, live art, video projection and commensality to examine food justice; aiming to transform food consumers into food citizens.'

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1. Maya Chowdhry, ‘What’s Eating Reality?’ (2019)⠀
2. Maya Chowdhry, ‘What’s Eating Paradox’ (2020)⠀
3. Projection mapping at Castlefield Gallery

#obstructions #castlefieldgallery #manchesterartist @tenobstructions #mayachowdhry #liveart #projectionmapping #foodjustice #environmentaljustice
#repost @ginkgo.prize ・・・ Our final excerpt #repost @ginkgo.prize
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Our final excerpt from @maya_chowdhry's workshop 'The Animacy of Fossils & Other Nonhumans'. Here we have some beautiful quotes from @camilledungy in an interview she did with 'Pear Trees Review' (link in @ginkgo.prize bio⁠ & below
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She talks about the purpose of ecopoetry, as a way of engaging with the self, with our lives, all of our movements & actions. Because everything that we do affects the natural world:⠀
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Camille says: “My idea about what ecopoetics can be is that it is poetry that is ecologically-engaged, is engaged in a sort of question of a web-of-life, not an up-down pyramid, or hierarchy of life, but a connected web-of-life, and that implicates the human in relationship to the non-human world. The non-human world has its own validity and viability that need not have anything to do with the human world.[...] So, ecopoetics can admit poetic experiments with math, science, economics, histories, genealogies and can talk about things that seem to have nothing to do with trees, frogs, birds, but because we all live in this linked web, everything that we do—economic decisions which have no green labelling to them whatsoever—directly affect the nonhuman world and the human world’s interaction with them.”⠀
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This ‘connected web of life’ can — especially in times of social distancing — be seen as quite beautiful. ⁠⠀
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For the full interview hit the link in bio (https://pear trees review.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/interview-camille-dungy/) & for more of Maya's incredible writing prompts head to 'www.ginkgoprize.com' & hit the 'workshops tab'. ⁠⠀
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#repost @ginkgo.prize ・・・ This week we're de #repost @ginkgo.prize
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This week we're delving into #mayachowdhry excellent workshop: 
'The Animacy of Fossils & Other Nonhumans'. 
Maya encouraged us to embody inanimate objects, to breakdown the ways in which they might communicate. We explored the challenges of writing the non-human voice, and Maya showed us how we could use the tools of poetic language to both imagine a conversation with our natural world and vocalise it. See below: ⁠⠀
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Exercise (15 minutes): Choose an object in your room that you want to be transformed into, e.g. a table, a plant or tap. Place yourself in front of the object. ⁠⠀
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Create a series of about 5 field recordings with your object, each sound should be at least 1-minute duration. 

To make field recordings create all the sounds you possibly can with your object (you can use another object to produce the sounds, e.g. a pencil, a jug). Record a series of these sounds on your phone. (Audio example of a drain linked in bio) 
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On an iPhone use ‘Voice Memos’ app and on an android phone the built-in audio recorder app. 

Listen back to the sounds on repeat, preferably with headphones on, and write to the sounds - bringing into mind the object as you listen to the different qualities of the sound - tone, rhythm, intensity and pitch. 
(Find an audio example linked in @ginkgo.prize bio & on the full worksheet, download from www.ginkgoprize.com & hit the 'workshops' tab) ⁠⠀
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News

  • Soil voicemails and other trans-species calls
  • Food Justice & Digital Art Projects
  • (In)visible women at Storytelling and the Body Conference, Verona
  • What’s Eating Our Reality
  • Poetry and Climate Change Salon at Ledbury Poetry Festival

Events

  • Poetry and Climate Change Salon at Ledbury Poetry Festival
  • Reading at April Poets, Lancaster, April 2018
  • Zarf 10 – Maya Chowdhry and Nathan Walker

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