" Conceived as a gameworld-reading, the disappearance of a tigress from mapping devices is a political embodiment of seeking refuge and resistance from capture." ~ Ultrasonic Tigress, a thrilling performance by Gayatri Kodikal (DAI, 2020) will take place twice, during the opening of The Ground up and The Washed Down on the 8th of July, at 17:00, and on the 29th of July, from 16:00-17:00 at A Tale of A Tub. The script was first developed in Berlin at the Silent Green Kulturquartier in 2019 as part of the Dutch Art Institute’s final Kitchen presentations of that year.
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Using oral storytelling and sound, a narrative sets the contradictions in the interrelations of ‘nature’ and ‘technology. The narrative reframes the differences worlded through mapping, being mapped and how we live with ambivalence. Conceived as a gameworld-reading, the disappearance of a tigress from mapping devices is a political embodiment of seeking refuge and resistance from capture. It takes a critical look at how scientific institutions tend to imagine non-human beings as passive and static. Here, the ultrasonic –the high frequency audio spectrum beyond the human hearing range–, marks a starting point for radical queer relationships of future ecology. The missing tigress Kali and her subsequent search, is based on wildlife researcher's fieldwork, told to Gayatri Kodikal by Navya Ramesh, who researches human - big cat contact zones at the National Institute of Biological Sciences, in India. The script was first developed in Berlin at the Silent Green Kulturquartier as part of the Dutch Art Institute’s annual Kitchen presentations. It was adapted for Matadero Madrid, "Queering the City: A Sono-orientation" which is part of the exhibition "Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales" (2020). A Tale of A Tub About Gayatri Kodikal |