Cross Pollinat/In Venice

Cross Pollinat/In Venice

Geetanjali Sayal / Juhi Saklani / Anshul Kapoor

9:05 min (PAUSE to EXIT) Located in San Marco Square.

This work is a unique pollination of ideas and backgrounds of three Indian individuals living in New Delhi and London, surpassing territorial and linguistic barriers to germinate in Venice.

The spoken word poetry takes you through the journeys and imagination of a wanderer, a process of self-discovery in a backyard lane of an 84-year-old central market in New Delhi, India through the lives of a married woman who keeps visiting her parent’s house during monsoon to endlessly play in the rain in her birth village; a migrant tea seller selling tea from a hidden staircase starting new conversations every day; and a security guard, reminiscing about his childhood days, hiding away from his dad, flying kites with his friends.

The co-relations of the piece to the surroundings in the Piazza San Marco invite you to have your own imaginary perception of the reformation of the Square, through the process of flooding, alteration of edges, boundaries, the fluidic relationship between land and water, human and space which can be ‘scaped’ over again so that the earlier perceptions are less visible physically and mentally.

Voice: Juhi Saklani

Cross Pollinat/In Venice is a collaboration spanning Architecture, Poetry and Sound, between Architects Geetanjali Sayal, with an MA in Narrative Environments from Central Saint Martins; Anshul Kapoor, who heads a Sound Design and Film studio in India; and Writer / Photographer / Translator Juhi Saklani, who writes lyrics, screenplays for films and TV serials. Having previously collaborated between India and London, these three use their work to look beyond simply the structural and functional aspects of human, cultural and political dimensions of the environment.

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