Performances

Dunedin artist Sudhir Duppati painted music at the Otago Museum on Sunday 18th Oct 09.The Otago Polytechnic School of Art painting and drawing lecturer painted a eight-metre canvas in response to a trio of musicians playing guitar, digeridoo and electronica effects.The show was part installation and part performance and crowds gathered at the museum through the day to watch his progress.``I'm painting in response to the music, and the musicians are playing music in response to what I'm painting,'' Duppati explained.Children seemed particularly fascinated by the spectacle, as the artist almost appeared to meditate to the music at times before making his next movement. He completed the canvas in eight hours. Duppati has exhibited extensively in New Zealand, India, and the United States over the past three years, in galleries ranging from Peter Ray Art Gallery, Blue Oyster Contemporary Space, Salisbury House Gallery in Dunedin to the Tamarind Museum and Gallery in New York...

"Devolution#1" (performance- Re-visiting the primitive) A reconsideration of the "primitive" notion with references to its 19th century contexts in history is intended to express my ideas through a series of performances, happenings and installations. To me recognition of representational forms is not the only process of understanding. Rather, presenting and surrendering one’s soul on a spiritual level in the act of making something artistic to raise one’s self to another level of experience is the essence of being –"The Primitive Being." Stanely Diamond in chapter 4 of In Search of the Primitive Expresses an inductive model of primitive society in contrast with civilization. “These cultural-historical antitheses, and the consequent split in consciousness evident everywhere in modern society cannot be transcended until a revolutionary transformation occurs, equal in scope and depth to that which initiated civilization about 5,000 years ago. The point...

'Perfection' Performance, The gallery, Eritrea, 2005. Duration :45min.

'Perfection', Performing with Helen (UK), The Gallery, Eritrea, 2005.

'Perfection', Performance with Helen, The Gallery, Eritrea, 2005.

"Perfection', Daira Gallery, India, 2004.