PANAJI
Two-Thirds of Us’ is currently on display at the Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts in Panaji as part of the curatorial exhibition ‘Makers and Materials – Goa: Past and Present’ till February 28, 2026. The series of eight books on Goa’s ecology and water emerged from over four years of research and documentation, had the patronage and support of the Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation Creative Arts Grant, the VM Salgaocar Fellowship and Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Co-Creation Grant. “This work from the Konkan coastline and Goa lies at the intersection of imagination, technology, future narratives, and resilience, proposing an artistic and aesthetic framework where critical theory converges with oral histories, traditional knowledge, ecofeminism, caste and race, and the sensibilities of Punk and Futurisms. Here, scientific, historical, and speculative fictions flow together, shaping and bridging our ‘Third Worlds’ with the Global North,” said author Wency Mendes. The work materialised through processes of archiving, mapping, memory, embodiment, and play. It manifests across forms – texts, media, web and video; traditional and digital imagery; assemblages; reconstructed glocal materials; soundscapes; performative choreographies; and web-enabled interactivity.
