Join Ansuman Biswas on a journey exploring some of the underlying philosophies and social outcomes of listening with devoted attention.
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About the Event...
Ansuman will share a selection of artworks and ideas to nourish the soul of the Madras Cafe. With musical performances, poems and provocations he will weave threads between Rabindranath Tagore and Free Jazz, silent meditation and industrial noise, ancient tradition and modern experimentation, the villages of India and the streets of Britain, the gallery and the laboratory.
About...
Ansuman Biswas
Ansuman Biswas has an international, inter-disciplinary practice which has included directing Shakespeare in America, translating Tagore, designing underwater sculptures in the Red Sea, living with wandering minstrels in India, being an ornamental hermit in the English countryside, touring with Björk, surviving blindfolded in an unknown place, travelling with nomadic shamans in the Gobi Desert, playing with Oasis, stopping time, and much more.
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