Limits of Change, a project of theatre, installation, archival & lens-based art, is conceived curated and written by Parvathi Nayar & Nayantara Nayar; it is commissioned and presented by the InKo Centre, Chennai. The theatrical component is directed by Yog Japee, and the project realised by a creative team from India and Korea.
Limits of Change uncovers a little-known but vital aspect of Indo-Korean history, The point of departure is a place of biography; Parvathi's father was a soldier who served in Korea among other places. When he died, his papers were left to her.
One part of Limits of Change begins in1953, when 6,000 Indian soldiers who collectively formed the Custodian Force, India (CFI) boarded ships from Madras and headed to the Korean DMZ, to help resolve the stalemate of the Prisoners of War Issue.
The second part is set in The Story Museum, Chennai, where an exhibition titled Limits of Change is scheduled to open. The basis of the exhibition are the archives – photographs, papers – of a certain Captain N who went to Korea in 1953/54 as part of the CFI.
The Performance+Art Installation is centred around nine interconnected arcs of a story. The storyteller is Curator P, who has put together this exhibition on the CFI’s time in the DMZ. Helped by her Assistant, she leads her audience of about 20-25 people at a time, across 8-9 spaces, where theatre and art combine to unveil a powerful story. Part-fictional and part-historical, the narrative engages with urgent themes of identity and home, violence and forgiveness, war and peace...
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