Words Bodies Resistance

This workshop invites you to slow down, explore language, and respond creatively to Nalini Malani’s powerful installation. Through playful word work, embodied observation, and mixed-media making, we’ll reflect on how our presence, individually and together, can become a form of resistance in uncertain

times.

In times of political upheaval, when dominant narratives tighten and bodies are controlled, creativity offers a form of resistance, not only through what is said or made, but through the very act of being. When we gather, when we create, when we attend to sensation, language, and gesture, we reclaim space, often quietly, often radically.

Resistance is not always loud. It lives in the pause, in the refusal to flatten experience, in the way we choose to remain present with complexity. Our bodies carry memory and potential. They move through the world marked by history, and yet always capable of new expression. When we draw, write, or speak from that embodied place, we resist disconnection. We insist on being alive.

To create is to disrupt, sometimes gently, sometimes fiercely. In this workshop, we begin from the premise that being together, with attention and imagination, is itself a political act. Through creative play with word and image, we make visible the invisible threads of relation, struggle, and becoming. As Nalini Malani’s work reminds us, fragments, echoes, and shadows carry deep truths. So do the small gestures we make in response. Your body knows things. Your words are enough. Your presence matters.