The Spice Chronicles

Performance Art with Puppetry and Fragrance by  Varun Narain

                                                                 At 

                                            The Spiel Art Festival 2021

                                                                    Munich

 ‘Nose – Making Sense of Smell’

Curated by Eva Neklyaeva

'Spice Chronicles' - the stories about the history of various spices was performed at the Spiel Art Theatre Festival in Munich with Puppetry, Mask Theatre and Story telling. The performance had an Olfactory component where the story of each spice was accompanied by its fragrance. 

 

 The sense of smell is the first one we use when we are born. Scents trigger emotions and memories. The way we articulate smells and create meanings around them is culturally and socially defined. The performance draws on the richness of recent sociological research on the way scents create osmologies – value systems attributed to smells.

 Acknowledgements ‘Spice Chronicles’:  

Lisa Gilardino.

Marco Cendron

Shaad Qureshi

 Photosynthesis By Moonlight: 

A Performance that attempts to blurt the boundaries between the Human and Plant world - a fantastical exploration based on the pioneering work on plant respond and emotion by the Indian Scientist J.C. Bose.