Smiha Kapoor
@_milk_n_7_almonds_ is an online presentation developed as an antidote to the physical distances we’ve come to suffer during the pandemic. It makes use of the personal and the familial to harvest exchanges embodied in love and care-giving to heal through our current isolations.
By recalling the deeply familiar through everyday items, objects and rituals of caring, and wrapping them up in care-packages to hand-deliver to people across Singapore, this collaborative performance ponders on the multitude of meanings the care-package takes on in relation to the personal, cultural, historic, creative and everyday identities of its participants. It traces itself across the intimate individualities of the people it touches, and finally meets us digitally where the newly elaborated meanings to its items are archived together.
@_milk_n_7_almonds_
Dimensions - Variable, Online presentation | Instagram - @_milk_n_7_almonds_, 2021
Medium - Collaborative Participatory Performance
Materials - Care-Package; Milk, Curd, Ghee, Paneer, Almonds, Tea Leaves, Honey, Jaggery, Mishri, Batasha, Dried Chillies, Saffron, Black Pepper, Green Cardamom, Clove, Fennel Seeds, Chat Masala, Turmeric Powder, Cinnamon Powder, Boondi, Oil Lamp, Mauli Thread, Bamboo Plate, Cellophane, Hawker Paper
Materials - Care-Package; Milk, Curd, Ghee, Paneer, Almonds, Tea Leaves, Honey, Jaggery, Mishri, Batasha, Dried Chillies, Saffron, Black Pepper, Green Cardamom, Clove, Fennel Seeds, Chat Masala, Turmeric Powder, Cinnamon Powder, Boondi, Oil Lamp, Mauli Thread, Bamboo Plate, Cellophane, Hawker Paper
Collaborators
Akai, Alisha Cherian, Asviinii Maria, Divyam Raghunath, Ila, Jennifer Teo, Jessie Lim, Jireh Koh, Joeve Lio, Jyoshitaa Gopinath, Madeline Tan, Manju Mohanadas, Manka Bajaj, Mengju Lin, Murali M, Nur Cosina Wong, Sarah Leroy, Saraswati Satyananda, Shibani Gaikwad, Soo Pei Chia, Tanvi Kothary, Veronyka Lau, Victoria Chen
Akai, Alisha Cherian, Asviinii Maria, Divyam Raghunath, Ila, Jennifer Teo, Jessie Lim, Jireh Koh, Joeve Lio, Jyoshitaa Gopinath, Madeline Tan, Manju Mohanadas, Manka Bajaj, Mengju Lin, Murali M, Nur Cosina Wong, Sarah Leroy, Saraswati Satyananda, Shibani Gaikwad, Soo Pei Chia, Tanvi Kothary, Veronyka Lau, Victoria Chen
Smiha Kapoor (b. 1997) is an Indian artist and facilitator currently based in Singapore. Her approach to art-making is performance-centric through which she extends the personal into realms of drawing, installation and image-based media.
Her interest lies in investigating notions of the non-dual and she often employs tracing as a conceptual strategy to weave connections across various planes of presumed separations. She has presented her works in India, Germany and Singapore and has developed performances for institutions like National Gallery Singapore and NUS Museum in collaboration with artists like Jimmy Ong. She graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Art (Hons) from LASALLE College Of The Arts in 2021.