Artist Talk

Born in 2008 in Borotalpada, a village near the border between Bengal and Orissa in India, Trimukhi Platform is dedicated to producing contemporary art forms, building bridges between distant worlds, and stimulating the invention of uncommon thought. The collective brings together several families in this Santhal Village (Santhal are a community of Adivasi, or “first inhabitants” – aborigines – of India) around the dance-theatre director, video maker, and philosopher Jean-Frédéric Chevallier and art producer Sukla Bar.

Born in the suburbs of Paris in 1973, Jean-Frédéric Chevallier is a good example of what “worlding” could mean: philosopher, dance-theatre director, and video artist, he was briefly a lecturer at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in France and, for a longer time, professor at National University of Mexico. He has been living in India since 2008, where he co-founded the tribal organization Trimukhi Platform. With about 40 dance-theatre performances and 16 video art films to his credit so far, he has also published the essays: “El Teatro hoy” (2012), “Deleuze et le théâtre” (2015) and “Le Théâtre du présenter” (2020).