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Online premiere and discussion on 10 June 2022.

Digital Performance
English | 18 minutes 15 seconds | Black & White | 2022

Dear Aphrodite is a letter, a poem, an ode to melancholy. Dear Aphrodite is a person in crisis. Dear Aphrodite is an attempt at healing. Dear Aphrodite began as a digital performance and travelled only to become a strange film.

It is an exercise in self reflection, documentation and commentary that is hard to define and is not ready to be boxed into a category. Not unlike the creator of the piece, it yearns to belong and yet doesn't want to fit in.

More than anything, Dear Aphrodite is the process of looking at oneself, asking important questions, both personal and political. It is not a document of self love. On the contrary, there are too many things which hint at self hatred. But maybe there is a thin line between the two, and the text and images keep jumping from one side to another in search of answers.

Disability, body image, love, loneliness form the core of these conversations and yet it is also a love song, a sad one, but a love song nonetheless.

Written, performed, shot and edited by Abhishek Anicca.

The recording is of the conversation that followed the online premiere of the digital performance: between the artist Abhishek Anicca, and Paromita Vohra, award winning filmmaker whose work explores feminism, love and desire, urban life and popular culture and the Founder and Creative Director of Agents of Ishq - India’s best-loved website about sex, love and desire.