Yarning
Yarning is the title of Meghna’s ongoing artistic research in which she devises spatial, temporal, and textual connections between knitting acts\objects, and dance. Meghna conceived the preliminary processes of this research during the pandemic, inside her parental home in New Delhi- a moment in which the whole world was experiencing a historical and painful return to the idea of ‘home’. Being a dancer, she felt that a part of her struggle was also to find ways to keep dancing. And it is in search of this dance that she started to learn crocheting from her mother, which led her to a whole repertoire of rhythmic patterns embedded in the gestures of crocheting. Additionally, many thoughts on female labour and matrilineality started to emerge for her. In the current phase of this research, Meghna is focussed on thinking through the relationship between women and thresholds while exploring the motifs of knitting rhythms, entangled bodies, playgrounds.
Body without location: 4 dances
bearing witness to the knotting skies
Do you remember the touch of a stitch?