The Weird Fictions project( 2016) is a series of interactive stories, installations and poetry performances that were playfully combined to transform the Cubbon Park Metro Station, Bangalore into a figment of the imagination, challenging perceptions of reality. Curated on the theme of “going beyond the surface of the ‘known’, this was an experiment on how to develop an urban legend or a conspiracy theory by operating upon people’s inherent fears and fascination with the unknown. Put together by Pooja Sagar and Jeena Mary Chacko, and the student artists of Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology, the concept is derived from the genre of 'Weird Fiction' that subverts the natural laws, dissolving the border between the real and the unreal.
Festival of Stories at Cubbon Park Metro StationFlies in the Weird CurryThe flies in the curry set off a series of events that put readers in ‘off their skin’ moments, conundrums and simulated environments of weirdness.Narratives in the form of scattered diary entries, strange maps, illustrations and fragmented notes seemingly left behind by early explorers.Signboards, personal belongings, scribbles and markings that seemingly ‘prove’ the existence of a secret subterranean civilization.What secrets lie buried beneath the surface of the Earth? Beneath your very feet?Student performers became the ‘beings’ and interact with the audience using scripted conversations, speeches, and handouts to offer the audience an inexplicable, “weird” experience.Video installation of slam poetry performances, curated on the theme ‘ What does it mean to be weird?’Playful opening into a subaquatic world inside the metro tunnel
