Performance + Artists' Panel: Art Night Thursday, South Asian Contemporary

Performance and Panel - 18:00-20:00hrs

South Asian Contemporary Art Amsterdam will host an artist’s panel with contemporary artists Razia Barsatie, Rucha Kulkarni and Sarojini Lewis. The panel will be joined and moderated by Dr Priya Swamy. Razia and Rucha are currently showing with us; ‘Choreographies of Compliance: Between Acceptance and Allowance’ is on view from 20.02 until 7.04.2026.

We will start the evening with a performance by Rucha Barsatie, titled: Ritual of Responsibility, 18:00hrs

“This performance marks a transitional moment preceding the exhibition. Through an understated ritual, I bring together acts of cleansing and whispered forms of farewell”. - Razia Barsatie

Enactments of whispered language and acts of cleansing, purification and protection, performed in a slow meditative sequence will mark the threshold from which the exhibition emerged. This will be followed by a poetry reading by Sarojini Lewis and finally the artists’ panel with all 4 guests.

About the panelists:

Razia Barsatie (SUR/NL) explores sensory experience, cultural memory, and the opening up of conversations around taboo subjects. Working with scent, video animation, drawing, and ecological materials, she builds emotional landscapes informed by her Surinamese heritage.

Rucha (IND/NL) is a visual artist and social art practitioner. Her oeuvre spans painting, textile, and installation. Her interdisciplinary practice explores themes of identity, migration, memory, and community through collaborative and process-based methodologies.

Sarojini Lewis (IND/SUR/NL) has a background in Fine Art (MFA Fine Art Edinburgh University) with a specialization in archival photography, video art and book arts. She is currently working as a curator, researcher and artist. Her PhD in visual studies in JNU examined the indentured labour archive through a feminine contemporary lens,

Dr Priya Swamy is Curator Globalisation and South Asia at Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Wereld Museum, Amsterdam). Priya holds a BA in World Religions from McGill University (Canada) and an MPhil and PhD in Area Studies from Leiden University. Her research critically engages with the ways in which people in and from South Asian diasporas innovate and rearticulate their religious and political beliefs across historical moments and social contexts.

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