Avantika Tibrewal
Verbond-maker
Based in Amsterdam, Avantika interdisciplinary practice spans physical theatre, performance art and documentary research, using the body as a primary tool. Driven by an exploration of human behaviour, her works engage with themes of social normativity and the politics of the unspoken. She is interested in presenting the investigation of her curiosities to the public rather than asserting fixed narratives or giving answers. An interplay between intimate, provocative and thought-provoking, her work reimagines the relationship between the audience and the stage.
Her artistic stimulus is rooted in her country’s ever-changing landscape, colours, rituals and the Indian cinema providing the spectator with multiple elements and constant shifts during the performance that critically respond to contemporary spectatorship. Her new research, "It's Never "Just Hair" broadens her stimulus to indian mythology, maternal bonds and femme fatale witches.
In 2024, her works were formally archived in the University of Vienna’s theatre library for academic and public engagement. Avantika continues to shape the diasporic and decolonial discourse within a predominantly Eurocentric art world as an emergent voice in the international performance scene.
