trawl, press, transmogrify: A Performative Triptych by Ayumi Goto & Vridhhi Chaudhry | 28 Dec | Method Kala Ghoda

Three interconnected performances exploring resilience, entrapment, and the complexities of gendered violence through distinct yet interwoven interventions. Drawing from personal experiences, cultural contexts, and shared creative sensibilities, these works interrogate patriarchal containment while celebrating the resilience of those navigating oppressive systems. Offering no easy answers, they honour the power of questioning itself.

Date : 28th December 

Time : 6 PM
Location : Method Kala Ghoda

Ayumi Goto explores the world through performance, using the body as a medium to engage with and respond to the worlds she encounters. Her practice reflects an intimate exchange—she consumes these worlds even as they consume her. As an embodied, diasporic artist and thinker, Ayumi draws inspiration from the writings of Neo-Buddhist modernist philosopher Nishida Kitarō, who conceptualized thinking as an outcome of the lived body. For Ayumi, thought is not a prime mover but a secondary characteristic of the body's motion—akin to sweat, tears, skin, blood, and waste. She believes that we breathe, live, and act, and therefore exist together.

Raised in a pan-Asian, multi-directional, and multi-linguistic diasporic context, Ayumi was taught that gestures often speak louder than words and that life unfolds in variegated states of impermanence. Central to her work is the conviction that these fleeting engagements should be framed by eternal love, ensuring that no one is ever left behind. She is deeply fascinated by the shapeshifting nature of place, time, and space, and how these transformations can expand our understanding of health and disease. For Ayumi, health is not limited to the human condition but encompasses a broader web of human and nonhuman interrelations. Her collaborative practice weaves together humans, nonhumans, dreams, and hope, creating a tapestry of interconnected existence.

Vriddhi Chaudhry’s performances and paintings unravel the personal and spiritual, uncovering hidden emotions such as trauma, melancholy, and isolation. Her creative process transforms these memories into acts of self-healing, extending that healing to a broader community of survivors who may feel unseen. Guided by dreams and inspired by Carl Jung’s ideas, Vriddhi navigates grief while searching for growth and renewal.

Through writing, painting, installation, and performance, she explores shadows—symbols of the hidden and repressed—to make sense of her experiences and focus her work on post-traumatic growth. At the intersection of psychology, sociology, and magical realism, Vriddhi’s practice draws from Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics, inviting viewers to engage and spark conversations about emotions often silenced by stigma. Her work examines the human capacity to heal and grow, even in the darkest moments.