Duration - 1hour
What are we asked to inherit, and what do we do with it? In this performance, Aparna continues her exploration of ritual, lineage, and the cycles of consumption and refusal that shape our bodies and histories. Across cultures and generations, we are offered scripts, instructions, and symbols—sometimes sacred, sometimes burdensome—but rarely asked whether we wish to take them in or release them.
Set within a threshold of attention, Red Noise Offering unfolds as an encounter with inherited noise—the hum of expectation, devotion, and obligation that exists long before we name it. The work contemplates the residue of tradition: the marks it leaves on the body, the mind, and the imagination, and the ways we might engage, resist, or transform it. It asks: How do we carry what was handed to us without being consumed? What becomes of those offerings we cannot hold? And what traces remain when we attempt to break the cycle?
The piece occupies a space between devotion and rupture, between ritual and disobedience. Aparna situates herself within this tension, creating a quiet, charged presence that invites reflection and inquiry. The audience becomes part of the work—witnessing, sensing, and encountering the reverberations of inherited noise. The questions raised are not answered but performed, circulated, and left for each witness to navigate: Who is the ritual for? Who carries it willingly, who reluctantly, and who is left behind? What happens when the inherited script is chewed, digested, transformed, or expelled?
Some portals don’t open with keys, but with people. Red Noise Offering owes its existence to the careful attention, generosity, and courage of its participants, and to the guidance of Vest&Page, whose intensive workshop Future Ritual: CEREMONY provided a threshold for this work to take shape. In its echoes, the work contemplates cycles of inheritance, the ambiguity of devotion, and the possibility of transformation that lies within even the most rigidly structured rituals.
A performance of endurance, reflection, and subtle disruption, Red Noise Offering situates the body as both site and mediator of history, offering traces of the unseen weight of tradition, and questioning what it means to carry, release, and ultimately redefine the inherited noise of the world.
Arcane Portals: an intensive co-creation with Vest&Page @vestandpage, 2025.
Future Ritual: CEREMONY.
Photos by Fenia Kotsopoulou @feniakotsopoulou.