CCA Introducing: Puer Deorum

On Wednesday 22 December 2021 from 10am, follow artist Puer Deorum as they take over our Instagram and Twitter pages to share their work and research for CCA Introducing 2021. CCA Introducing is a series of 24 hour social media takeovers by emerging artists. Each artist has been nominated by an artist or curator connected to CCA. The recommendation to invite Puer to participate in CCA Introducing came from Hetain Patel, who spoke on our CCA Round Table podcast #4 with Priya Mistry and Nithya Nagarajan.

Working with performance, costume, and sculptural prop-making, with a curiosity and nature in multidisciplines, I centre personal expression of liminality and fragmentation felt within my identity, narrating surreal paracosms with harmonious references and insights through word-of-mouth and oral histories and research on anthropology and folk culture/art from South Asia, specifically the Bengali Region. I explore nuances of intimacy, love, touch and personal censorship/repression under a homogenised gaze, highlighting complexities of interpersonal power relations and the concept of ‘play’ through implicit/movement based dialogue - experimenting with boundaries and limitations of navigating non-verbal worlds.

Puer will be sharing images and stills from their practice and also sculptures, props and costumes they've made. They also hope to share work by fellow artists that inspire them.