BANGKOK RESIDENCY Amrita Hepi x APHIDS

“Myth is the threshold of history.” — Saidiya V. Hartman

In April, APHIDS x Amrita Hepi will undertake a research trip and first development of a new work in Bangkok with local collaborators. This is a new performance about the choreography of destiny, investigating historical places marked by power as exercised through infrastructure: places such as palaces, power stations, waterways, and digital architectures. Some of these places nurture and sustain; others extract and exploit — many do both.

Using Amrita’s signature mix of humour, dance, affect, and performativity, this work will begin with a text written by Amrita and her collaborators. At the core of this process is Amrita’s ongoing methodology and question: how can text do something dance cannot, and how can dance operate beyond text — creating atmosphere, working memory, and a logic that exceeds language?