#Antariksha sanchar

[bhaskarrac]

3rd batch of Automaton concepts and sketches created Antariksha Sanchar game.

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[thepseudomallu]

Chief Producer (Technical and Artist Management) - Antariksha Sanchar DElhi, Mumbai and Bangalore shows

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Red Bull Music Presents Antariksha Sanchar is a collaborative, trans-media project inspired by the culture of South India. The live performance is essentially a dance opera with visual projections from the video game based on the storyline of the live show. A little confusing right? We can expect some confusion when this is India’s first ever immersive cultural trans-media live performance. This is actually the first example all semester of transmedia involving live performance and theater. This story set in early 20th Century Madurai blends traditional art form with modern storytelling techniques.

This article discusses the challenges of joining so many professionals with different backgrounds together to tell one cohesive final story. “The three mediums of the live performance – dance, music and visual projection – work collectively to take the audience through the story as Ramanujan moves from one location to another, discovering new devices to help him in his journey.” They use text slates and voiceovers, providing the audience with a movie experience rather than traditional theater. Design Consultancy company Quicksand will use the play storyline to create a video game which will release in 2019. The plot, dance, and music all blend together to aid the storytelling process. The projections on stage are more graphical with the video game animation. Overall, they’ve approached the project like a film rather than traditional theater, providing the Indian audience with an immersive cultural experience. I love to see theater venturing into transmedia storytelling as well.

[gradoc]

What is the Greenhouse?

A hybrid space at the intersection of new cultural activity, alternative education and market dynamics - this was the vision for Greenhouse, a community space co-founded by Quicksand and generously funded by the Goethe Institut in 2010. Located in the picturesque and culturally apt Hauz Khas Village—it was a space that operated as a catalyst, incubator and showcase for new cultural enterprise; a space for expanded education; and as a social node for new cultural activity. It represented a new, conceptual model for the creation and sustenance of independent, creative enterprise. By connecting education, independence, creative practice, commerce and social networks in India, the space worked as a facilitator or platform for stakeholders representing current and emerging socio-cultural expression.

Unfortunately, the year long experiment that seemingly failed more than it succeeded. In spite of it being partly funded by the Goethe-Institut, it was inefficient, hard to resource, hard to programme, lacked participation and interest from the partner studios and eventually had to be shut down when the term ended.

However, through the few honest experiments that we had the good fortune to distill, and untouched by the mess of practicality, grew two magic sprouts - one was UnBox, and we know now how magnificent that tree can become; while the other, was an unheralded, runt of a sapling - barely noticed in the rubble, barely tangible in fact, and somewhat embarrassed. And yet it was the home of a kindred spirit that facilitates native enquiry and expression, and brings with it camaraderie, gentleness and wholesomeness.

In 2016, we are trying to resurrect this spirit, as we try to make another giant leap towards our independence by proposing another bespoke, cooperative framework for creative practice. This time, it will be a different fate. Located in the quiet village in Soccorro, the studio is nestled in a beautiful forest, next to a small chapel. The partners involved in this new collaborative setup are The Busride, Tandem Research, Quicksand.

The Busride Lab explores work at the intersection of Art, Design and Architecture with a healthy disrespect for sanity. Quicksand will be migrating a few of their more tangential projects, like the ongoing Antariksha Sanchar video-game, and other Arts and Humanities inquiries to the new space. This Lab, like the work of both studios and their respective founders, puts research and experimentation at the centre of its practice. Everyday as Mumbai and Delhi, two of the biggest metropolitans in the country, stretch ones creative boundaries with the multiple opportunities and inspirations they offer, they also squeeze our pockets due to dearth of affordable spaces to experiment in, therefore cramming up one’s creativity. Hence a move to a quieter place that gives one more liberty of space seems wise. As the Greenhouse goes through its first few months since its birth, work happens with the same zeal and at the same pace as before at the respective studios of Quicksand in Delhi / Bangalore and The Busride in Mumbai.

[bhaskarrac]

4th one. Created for Antariksha Sanchar game.