Introducing KIPAF

PERFORMERS iNDEPENDENT (Pi) was an independent artists' collective, experimenting and exploring the traditional, modernist and contemporary spaces in the cultural paradigm. The Kolkata International Performance Art Festival was initiated by Pi in 2012 to annually open up the city of Kolkata to diverse traditions of performance, performitivty and interventions. Since then Pi has got fragmented but KIPAF has taken deeper roots.

The festival aims to be a platform for dialogue between site, art, politics and culture. KIPAF acknowledges the nascent nature of Performance Art in India, and will always play a role in the pedagogy of performance art.
The festival is be held between 23rd-26th January every year.

Monday 3 March 2014

kipaf14 - few glimpse from artist's work



at pathuria ghata - Rhyne B. from Philippines 


Debasis B.from India at Academy of Fine arts ,kolkata


Meba Kurata from Japan (Nipaf) at Studio 21

Hamada Miri from Japan(Nipaf) at Studio 21

Seiji Shimoda from Japan(Nipaf) at Studio21


Joler Gaan from Bangladesh.College Sq.

Manmeet D. from india toward Pathuriaghata ghosh bari


Priyanka C from India at Pathuriaghata ghosh bari

Rahul B. & Chimuk from India at Studio 21


Reshmi T. from India at Pathuriaghata ghosh bari





Sajan M. from India , Different public spaces in Kolkata


Smitha C from India at Academy of Fine Arts


Anirban D from India at Pathuriaghata Ghosh Bari


Tapati C from India at Pathuriaghat Ghosh Bari



Greetings and Coupans 




Some poster from Kipaf14.