Apr 26 – May 24
Gallery Installation
For the month of May, Morrow’s gallery is ahmm’s Asian Confectionery!
Savour the visual treat of a process capsule, featuring video footage, writings and other materials from Bharatanatyam artist Sujit Vaidya’s work Sacred Sacreligious.
Enjoy iconic and unusual Asian snacks hand-picked by the festival team.
Peruse and purchase festival artists’ merchandise and hand-made items, for which 80% of profits go to artists.
Sujit Vaidya: I am an independent dance artist living and working on the MST territories, also known as Vancouver. Trained in Bharatanatyam, I approach the form not as static tradition, but as a living, evolving inheritance shaped by embodied memory and intergenerational lineage. My practice amplifies the vitality of traditional knowledge systems as they move through contemporary lived realities, holding space for multiplicity, fluidity, and transformation.
I investigate the body as a site of negotiation—between past and present, devotion and desire, structure and rupture. Engaging with themes of eroticism, gaze, intimacy, and stillness, I am invested in slowness as aesthetic strategy and in reframing virtuosity through non-Eurocentric lenses. As a queer artist of colour, my work emerges from lived experience, often inhabiting discomfort as generative space for dialogue, reflection and reimagination. I have performed primarily as a soloist and created OFF CENTRE(2018), Sacred Sacrilegious (2021), Śṛṅgāra (2023) and Breathe In The Fragrance (2023).
