We warmly welcome you to "The Heavy Weight of Tiny Little Things", an Invitations exhibition presented by The Packet, now open at Devassy Jose & Sons, Mattancherry.
#KochiMuzirisBiennale #KochiBiennaleFoundation #ForTheTimeBeing #NikhilChopra #KMB2025
"Water Under The Bridge / A Bridge Under Water": this inversion adopts the structure of a mid-2000s internet café. Once imagined as a portal to a new era, the internet cafe represented a place where a utopian future felt shareable and within grasp, while the past became suddenly searchable. It was the metaphor of a bridge made literal, spanning past and future through a single screen.
In "Water Under the Bridge / A Bridge Under Water" the machines of the internet cafe still run, but the site is suspended within a fractured time. This exhibition brings together 12 artists in a series of interconnected conversations staged through a video-sharing platform. Their works unfold across videos, playlists, comment threads, and user profiles, where histories that should have been resolved keep returning to interrupt the development of the future.
Artists:
Aiganym Mukhamejan @aiganymmt
Alana Hunt @alanavhunt
Anisha Baid @anishadaybaid
Center for Political Beauty @political_beauty
Chu Hao Pei @chu_h_p
Devadeep Gupta @vevaveev
Finbarr Fallon @fin.barr
Shahana Rajani @shanzroll
Shenuka Corea @baka.moona
Sohrab Hura @uglydogbooks
The Packet
Tabita Rezaire #tabitarezaire
@sgbiennale 2025: pure intention
till march 29, 2026
🌏 Singapore!
The common phrase ‘Water Under the Bridge” implies a resolution, where the past has washed away and is no longer worth dwelling on. What is done is done. All is forgiven.
The inversion of this phrase “A Bridge Under Water”, then implies something far less settled, where what should have passed insists on reappearing and where the bridge becomes engulfed by the very waters it sought to span.
Artists
Aiganym Mukhamejan @aiganymmt
Alana Hunt @alanavhunt
Anisha Baid @anishadaybaid
Center for Political Beauty @political_beauty
Chu Hao Pei @chu_h_p
Devadeep Gupta @vevaveev
Finbarr Fallon @fin.barr
Shahana Rajani @shanzroll
Shenuka Corea @baka.moona
Sohrab Hura @uglydogbooks
Tabita Rezaire #tabitarezaire
The Packet @the_packet
More details soon! 🌐
Positively illuminated to be @sharjahart #FOCALPOINT this weekend!!! 😲🫣🤓
Don't miss out on our BRING YOUR OWN MEANING workshop on Friday, 4PM at Sharjah Art Institute, Art Square
Want our wares???
Come find us at Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Sharjah Arts Area
Friday, 22 November: 5PM – 10PM
Saturday, 23 November: 5PM – 10PM
Sunday, 24 November: 5PM – 10PM
We've got a whole array of art books and zines, by The Packet, as well as:
@rakingleaves_publishing@alanavhunt@yaarbal_books@unnamedzineproject@prinita.thevarajah
& the ICS and Zine & Heard programmes 🫡
AND ALSOOOOO some playful and irreverent 💸 MERCH 💸 from HOLY FLUX! 🙏🏽 feat. @u_mbr0@vuttakka@kittyritig
PLUS PLUS PLUS
STICKERS! INCENSE! COASTERS! PRAYER FLAGS! KEYTAGS! FRIDGE MAGNETS! AND MORE... wait, no, actually that's it.
⚠️🚨MONDAY!⚠️🚨
The Packet is super stoked to introduce the work of publisher and writer Yogesh Maitreya @yogeshmaitreya of Panther's Paw Publication @pantherspawpublication to our community here in Colombo! ⚡
We'll get to hear him speak about his journey of independently publishing Ambedkarite writers, translating them to English, and making accessible the words of Babasaheb Ambedkar. It will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker and scholar Sumathy Sivamohan, moderated by our own Ephraim Shadrach.
Venue: Lakmahal Community Library
Date: 19.08.24
Time: 4PM onwards
This event is free to attend with limited seating, so please do drop in on time for the best experience. 🌊🐾
Yogesh Maitreya is a poet, translator, writer and publisher at Panther’s Paw Publication. In 2023, his memoir “Water in a Broken Pot” (Penguin Random House) has been published. He is the recipient of the International Publishing Fellowship (British Council and Art X Company) 2022-23. He was the Democracy Machine Fellow at Eyebeam, Chicago (USA) (2022-23). He travels with his stories and has a conviction that stories, when they take the form of books, become the strongest pillars of civilizations without which, human society can never humanise itself.
Panther's Paw Publication is an Ambedkarite publishing house founded and run by Yogesh Maitreya. It has published Ambedkarite writers translated to English, as well as making accessible key works by Babasaheb Ambedkar with a renewed visual identity.
Ever wondered what goes on/in The Packet? We’re opening up our process and citing our sources, this Saturday, at the ZINE & HEARD ZINE FAIR 🧜🏽♂️🦎🦔🍄🐚🍋🧋⛳️🎪🚜🎢🏥📟⛓🩻🪞🪆📘
From 5-7 p.m. a lineup of cool cats from the Zine & Heard programme will appear in a poetry reading, a peek into process, and a non-manel panel discussion. Don’t miss this glimpse into the inner/outer lives of zine artists and their zine artistry. P.S. you don’t need an MFA or even a minor in Art History or Ayurvedic Medicine to appreciate it. All are welcome!
When? Sat. 27th July, 5:00 - 7:00 PM (Limited Seating)
Where? Lakmahal Community Library, Colombo 3
Who? Zines by: @khadijam0hideen@vickyshahjehan@toadsterfrog@minalnaomi@hiranyadaaa@lojithan_ram@ruqaiyah.sh@nathashaedi@mumble326
P.P.S - The fair is happening all day, so come on early to chat to artists one-on-one and grab some zines before they run out!
Hear, here! What’s all this fuss about zines? 👁️🗨️💿🎚️💎🪚🔮🧬📆🗞️📙📘📗📕📓📔📂📇🐸🔖🛠️🔎🔏✏️👂🏾✒️📌📎❤️🔥
Drop by the Lakmahal Community Library on Saturday, July 27, to find out!
The Packet is hosting a Zine Fair featuring 9 fresh zines, hot off the press, by 9 emerging zine artists based in the Western Province. Traversing themes embedded in the personal-political, each zine unfolds itself to the reader in its own way, its own weight, yet light enough to fit in your pocket 🤠.
Across the span of four months, the resident artists of Zine & Heard™️ participated in workshops, study groups, walks, and were paired with a mentor to explore self publishing as a means of speaking publicly, in nuanced ways.
On the day, there will be readings and discussions, snacktivities and let’s not forget the bevs, chit chats and banter. All are welcome, friends, family, zine-lovers, zine-curious, and zine-agnostic too 👽🐸🎃.
We’re super stoked to share these wonderfully playful and intimate offerings. Come meet the artists, listen to readings from the zines, and discuss the subjects the artists have explored!
⏰ When? 11AM - 7PM (Sat 27th July)
📍Where? Lakmahal Community Library, Colombo 3 @lakmahalcmb
🤓Who? Featuring:
@khadijam0hideen@vickyshahjehan@toadsterfrog@minalnaomi@hiranyadaaa@lojithan_ram@ruqaiyah.sh@nathashaedi@mumble326
6 whole weeks later, we’re back with…
… Our resident artists @khadijam0hideen and @ruqaiyah.sh explored Fort & Pettah and put together zines gathered from the surroundings during the second Residency of Zine & Heard.
Zine 2 | Hunter Gatherer
the imprint of it lied in the mismatched markings of the maps we drew (slide 2).
little did we follow a sense of direction but what the man was telling us.
the public library, the red mosque.
it was ephemera in the sense that we were going with the flow. but it was also not ephemera because we weren’t moving around with feeling. and the act of being guided over how to feel and what to experience may be a violence within itself.
the tuk uncle, whose name we weren’t chanced to ask, drove us around pettah to tourist spots and gave us a guided education on sri lankan history.
some things we knew, others, not so much
he’s malay, he said, and one of us were able to identify that immediately. still, we didn’t ask for his name. throughout this piece, we will refer to him as ‘he/him’ or ‘uncle’
we are now rendered unable to highlight the fact that uncle laced, traced and mapped our zine, something that might be reproduced without him as our lighthouse.
maybe these things won’t take precedence after all;
whether it’s the ribbons outside of the red mosque where women can’t pray jummah, or the colonial governors ‘grand orient’.
it was an encounter that laced, chanced and traced violence.
we were afraid of sexual assault.
we were afraid of rape.
and yet, we were performing acts of ‘soft violence’ -
plucking flowers, stealing other flowers from shrines of worship, going to the grand oriental hotel and disrupting their day by asking for nonsense like grand oreintal labelled tissue.
the only way to conclude this might be is to say that existing among these class and gendered structures means waking up everyday and performing violence even if we chose not to.
