INKED! Translating perceptions to permanent affects 

Tattoos have always been an addition to one’s identity, a conscious choice of putting a permanent scar on one's body. Focusing on the remembrance of societal approvals in the contemporary era, in respect to cultural histories, this workshop is to draw references from the convolution of the perception of tattoos, and how the artform changed with tools and contexts. The importance of human bodies as an archive of memories plays a major role in provoking the mind to re-experience their position in the given time and space. Considering the permanence of the inked drawings as the only limitation (don't worry, we would have sheets of fake skin!), this workshop aims to comment on the rules and regulations in terms of who can tattoo and who can’t. The workshop invites everyone to self-indulge in the art of tattooing while it collaborates with sounds and vibrations of the needles poking the skin. The workshop looks forward to inspire the participants to dive into understanding of the surface, skin, logic of permanence, and the recontextualization of predetermined theories of self image and pain. 

Srotoswini Sinha (they/them)  is a multi-disciplinary artist from Kolkata, India, based in Milan, Italy. Currently working with the notion of varied individual experiences, they tend to create an illusionistic sense of being into their practice through miscellaneous experiments in the world of visual narratives. Their works have been a part of the Students’ Biennale- Kochi Muziris Biennale, 2020, COP26, Glasgow, UNESCO, 2021, group exhibitions in Philadelphia and Brooklyn in 2022, along with exhibitions and screenings in Venice, Milan, Kolkata and Winnipeg in 2023 & 2024. Srotoswini uses acrylic, charcoal, ink and digital media to convey the experiences they gather through the documentation of incidents, memories and scenarios. In the complexities of ever-changing positionalities, their research relies on the yearning of belongingness in the context of individual memories of existence.