Program
Offerings is a three-hour performance installation, choreographic performance and sanctuary in one, where you can walk in and out whenever you like. The performance is set up as a game of dice. With it, Devika Bilmoria uses chance to break open fixed ideas and socio-cultural hierarchies.
Offerings is a beautifully original work and a compelling approach to a performance score–sights, sites, smells and rituals you will never have seen before and that will stay with you.
- Lois Keidan, Co Founder and former director of Live Art Development Agency, London.
In a demarcated space, dice roll across the floor to generate random seven-word sentences. Each “offering score” is interpreted and improvised by Devika. Four gestures form the basis: pouring, throwing, bowing and laying down. These gestures recur not only in ritual practices around the world, but also in art movements such as Dada and Fluxus, in which chance plays a role in the making of art.
Offerings continually takes shape through materials used in Hindu rituals and in a lively game of chance and endurance. Space, body and the making of meaning are all in constant motion. For this work, Devika received the Rodger Davies Award from the University of Melbourne in 2022 and was selected for London Open Live.
Come and be part of what unfolds, pause for a moment, and leave whenever you wish.
