Jan 20 2023 to Jan 20 2023 7:30 p.m.

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Where

The Courtyard

105, Kengal Hanumanthaiah Rd, opp. Corporation Bank, Raja Ram Mohanroy Extension, Shanthinagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560027, India 560027

Event Description

Bardo Beings, by Diya Naidu, was begun in 2012 by our younger selves and finally made into a full work in 2021.

We had immersed ourselves in tenets of Tibetan Buddhism and were fascinated with the concept of 'Bardo' - a word that simply means a "transition" or a gap between the completion of one situation and the onset of another. We explored a state of being suspended in between in a world of repetitive cyclical attachment.

Today, nine years later we return to this piece simply drawn to its physicality. We see that we as a community and a species are in fact in Bardo.

According to the Tibetan book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, "One of the central characteristics of the bardos is that they are periods of deep uncertainty". He goes on to observe, "to live in the modern world is to live in what is clearly a bardo realm; you don't have to die to experience one".

As humans we interact and engage in many ways, the reptilian, mammalian and other primal selves are constantly at play, our pasts our interacting with our presents in nebulous ways. We are often torn between seemingly binary forces.
In this clash and conflict, there is a kind of training, a preparation for the bardo and its demands."