First-Hand A Multisensorial Pause for Rest, Attention, and Care For Ages 15+

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First-Hand A Multisensorial Pause for Rest, Attention, and Care For Ages 15+

Details

Feb 22 2026 to Mar 01 2026 11 a.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

First-hand. First, Hand.

An experience that begins with the hand, with touch. The most direct sense through which we connect with the world.

Blindfolded, headphones on, you’re guided through forests, seas, and desert plains for 90 minutes. The world arrives through your fingertips: unexpected textures and sensations that reorient you. Your hands doing the work your eyes usually do. Through evocative storytelling, you traverse sensory worlds shaped by the intelligence and wonder of the animal kingdom.

An invitation to attune yourself differently. To recalibrate away from the visual tyranny of screens and return to your body’s older, quieter ways of knowing the natural world.

Please Note: Limited to 10 participants per session.

Production Credits:
Created by: Nitish Jain in collaboration with Studio MoreThanThat
Dramaturgy: Mara Ingea, Katja Vaghi, Anne Decker and Bhaskar Singh Thakur
Music: Raaghav Dhingra
Narration: Anushri Patel
Costumes: Emmanouela Mastora, GulSohrab Studio
Artists: Bhaskar Singh Thakur, Zaid Khan, Anukriti Mishra and Nitish Jain
Produced by: Studio MoreThanThat
Commissioned by: Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies
The project is made possible with the financial support of: Aparna Piramal Raje; Nova Sit (Czech Cultural Network); Studio Alta, Prague; Scouts Institute Prague; Surnadal Billag AS, Norway; Centro Jobel, Italy; and Culture Moves Europe, Belgium.

Part of Pravāha 2026, The Body As Space: A Journey Through The Senses. This year’s festival is built around what we hear, smell, touch, taste, and see. Eight days of multisensory experiences through classical music, contemporary dance, installations, and conversations.

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Artist

Nitish Jain
Multidisciplinary Artist
An India-born, Czech-based artist Nitish works across performance art, architecture, storytelling and object-based practices. His work explores non-visual ways of relating, inviting audiences to sense art through touch, taste, smell, listening and imagination. Nitish develops poetic and layered works attentive to metaphor, memory, and myth. His artistic lens is deeply informed by ecological thought, more-than-human perspectives, and postcolonial critique. In an age of digital acceleration, his work advocates rest and wellbeing – of both humankind and the ecology – through playful, sensory methods that counter overstimulation and spectacle.

He leads Studio MoreThanThat, a collaborative platform bringing together artists, thinkers and makers from diverse disciplines since 2017. Operating as an evolving international network, the studio focuses on a multi-sensory approach and creates participatory experiences, events, spaces, objects, lectures and workshops through long-term collaborations across contexts, geographies and formats. Their works have been presented at festivals, museums and public spaces across Czechia, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Italy, the UK, the UAE & India.