UnBox 2013: Festival Highlights

7 February 2013

UnBox Festival is here New Delhi.

With an official launch last night that saw an eclectic range of performances and a series of activities commencing today, we thought we'd put together our pick of what's happening over the next couple of days. The beauty of this year's festival is that it’ll all be taking place in one space, Zorba, a landscaped venue that is just a hop and skip away from Sultanpur Metro station on MG road. This means you can avoid traffic pile ups and jump on the metro which will make you both green and smart!

For adventurous creative and curious types you simply cannot afford to miss out. Register yourself to take part in a range of hands on workshops, seminars and electives ranging from t-shirt workshops at the Levis PrintLab under the watchful eye of typography maestro Hanif Kureshi to a Proustian scents workshop with Pan Studio. Make sure you make the most of the elective options too. These are close and intimate guided sessions with experts, while daily Open Labs will give UnBoxers the chance to directly engage with hosts and experts taking part in onsite projects in more focussed conversations.

Daily passes are Rs 4500 and include all workshops, electives, sessions and Foodlab experiences - you can sign up here

All performances are open to the general public and are FREE with the exception of the Indian Ocean gig on the 10th which will be a fundraising event. For a full schedule make your way over to the official UnBox website here.

**Every Day**

Open Lab: Techplay Lab With Bespoke Project + Karmicfix + Romit Raj
The Techplay Lab gives participants hands-on access to a selection of emerging material and digital technologies.

Open Lab: Puma Social Club With The Busride + BLOT! + Quicksand
Upcycling and repurposing is given a new meaning by extending it to festival decor, as UnBox interiors make their way to the new Puma zero-carbon footprint store in Bangalore.

Photography Exhibition: Project Rising Edition 2 - Forgotten Citizens 1984, Seeking Justice
A travelling photography exhibition initiated by senior advocate and human rights activist H.S. Phoolka. Phoolka put together the exhibition to draw public attention to the continues injustice during and after the anti-Sikh riots of 1984.

Print Exhibition: Bang Bang
Bang Bang is a closely-knit collective of DJs, producers, artists, designers and promoters from Sri Lanka. As an artist-centric, non-profit organization passionate about the development of Sri Lankan electronic music, Bang Bang attempts to aid the growth of the scene by holding quality events, supporting fresh talent, collaborating with partisan institutions, and fostering relations between musicians across nations.

Print Exhibition: Image & Word
An upcoming showcase on visual storytelling in India, being organised by a small team of comic book artists in New Delhi. At the UnBox Festival, they will introduce participants to the world of traditional storytellers in India through a collection of illustrations from their fieldwork.

**Friday 8 February**

Workshop: Levis PrintLab (also Saturday)
The art and design team from Levis PrintLab will create and facilitate the challenge of making 501 t-shirt prints across the duration of the festival, these will be exhibited on Sunday at the Market Fair.

Workshop: Analog Ron With Ron Schneider
Ron Schneider will take participants through simple demonstrations of the capabilities and aesthetics of sound embedded in these technologies. This workshop is a way to understand the relationship that exists between the artist, music and technology based instruments.

Elective: Pop-Up Brew With Aditya Challa (also Saturday)
Aditya Challa, founder of indie Singapore beer brand, Jungle Beer, will team up with participants to create special UnBox brews with a focus on cross-pollination and sensory experiments.

Open Lab: Foodlab With Dennis Francis Theo + Rikta Krishnaswamy - Delhi Belly
The first UnBox lunch will sate your hunger royal style,while keeping you on your feet for all the UnBox action that follows. Short, simple mini meals that represent all that we love and crave from the streets of Old Delhi.

Video Screening: Now Delhi
Now Delhi is an Internet based video documentary series that features stories of emerging subcultures from the capital city. It hosts short features on the underground and alternative communities which are overlooked by mainstream media while also extending support to impact based social change movements.

Seminar: Re-imagining The Street: Zines & Self Published Stories By Prof. Teal Triggs.
This talk will provide a brief survey of this unique form of self-publishing by way of introducing, and putting a call out for contributors to the UnBox Zine Press initiative.

Performance: Bhajans Blues & Bob Dylan with MT Aditya & Vedanth Bharadwaj - Saskia Rao and Gwyneth Wentink - Peter Cat Recording Company - TL Mazumdar & Jivraj Singh
7.30pm-11pm – Main stage - FREE

**Saturday 9 February**

Workshop: Levis PrintLab
The art and design team from Levis PrintLab will create and facilitate the challenge of making 501 t-shirt prints across the duration of the festival, these will be exhibited on Sunday at the Market Fair.

Workshop: Proustian Scents With Pan Studio
A workshop dedicated to our sense of smell and how it is linked with memory. Attendees can mix a scent of their own design using a combination of perfumers' flavours, then take it home after the festival and use it to 'encode' a future event.

Workshop: Field Recordings With The Travelling Archive
The Travelling Archive will share their unique process while facilitating a group experience of field recordings with a group of Bengali migrant workers in New Delhi. They will create recordings based on the theme of “migration, memory and music”—an extension of their work in London in 2007.

Elective: Pop-Up Brew With Aditya Challa
Aditya Challa, founder of indie Singapore beer brand, Jungle Beer, will team up with participants to create special UnBox brews with a focus on cross-pollination and sensory experiments.

New Media: Poetic Tech In The Live Room By Sin;Drome
SIN;DROME’s showcase at Unbox will involve live sculpture, sonic landscape, interactive visuals, through remote storytelling and distributed online artists.

Installation: Tinted Water (also Sunday)
The installation explores interactivity by using physical actions that generate its digital counterparts.Tinted Waters allows visitors to play, wave, swing, dance and even synchronize their physical movements with music.

Seminar: A Little Seminar By BLOT!
Gaurav Malaker and Avinash Kumar from BLOT! talk about their process and what goes into making their signature music and visuals.

Seminar: Brewing A Dream By Aditya Challa
'Adi’ will present the history of Jungle beer and give a unique insight into his understanding of brewing flavourful beers with an atypical identity.

Seminar: DIY Club Culture In Berlin 1990-2010 By Gerriet Schultz
This talk will use the example of WMF Club (1990-2010) to discuss how massive changes after the fall of the wall and the legal vacuum created as a result gave rise to the use of temporary spaces and a freely creative way of life which culminated in Berlin's widely acclaimed club culture, something that has irrevocably made its mark on German electronic music since then.

Performance: ‘Prelude to an Inner Act’ - Gwyneth Wentink (Harp Recital) - Puma loves Vinyl with Ron Schneider, KOHRA and Vinayaka
7pm-8pm – Main Stage - FREE

**Sunday 10 February**

Open Lab: Foodlab With Dennis Francis Theo + Rikta Krishnaswamy -UnBox Feast
The last meal at UnBox 2013 is a thoughtfully curated Kerala-style sadya (grand feast) served on plantain leaves. Sit down on the lawns of Zorba, wash your hands before-hand and prepare well for the absence of spoons, forks, excavators,Vernier-Calipers and the lot. Starving in anticipation is optional.

Exhibition: Maker Fair
An opportunity for UnBox participants and anchors to display work produced during the festival. It is a recap of the workshops, electives, open labs and seminars as tangible output.

Seminar: Cultural ROI By Parmesh Shahani
Parmesh Shahani, recently listed as one of 25 Indians to watch out for by the Financial Times, is the head of the Godrej India Culture Lab. In his talk, Parmesh Shahani will share his work with the Godrej Culture Lab
in India, suggesting a new marriage of culture and enterprise.

Seminar: Rules To Dress By With Amisha Ghadiali
We have the opportunity to affect millions of people’s lives and to protect our environment by how we shop and what we wear. Rules are made to be broken, but by following these you can make a difference.

Installation: Tinted Water
The installation explores interactivity by using physical actions that generate its digital counterparts.Tinted Waters allows visitors to play, wave, swing, dance and even synchronize their physical movements with music.

Performance: Indian Ocean (Separately ticketed fundraising event) - SoundCamp Ensemble
7pm-11pm - Main Stage

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