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Occupying a space in-between Architecture and Performance, ReSa frames 'architecture' as something that is built-upon 'situations' rather than on static and fixed 'sites'. To sensitively place and position ourselves within complex constellations of social and ecological dynamics of every site, we draw methods of seeing and framing the site from the fields of theatre. Believing that 'Theatre' offers the possibility to create nuanced ways of travelling between the 'I' and the 'you’. We are curious about a collective artistic praxis to explore alternative forms of architectural practice rooted in communities and connected to the land.

Since our conception, we have worked across a range of built-projects including urban houses, house interiors, workspaces, landscaping, land development and civic infrastructure as well as research projects including movement-based work and textual written work. As of March 2025 we situate ourselves in Lonavala to be closer to our sites here, giving us a chance to watch architecture and its making closely and celebrate its ability to create micro moments of transference across material, labour, languages, land and land values.

Being biological sisters, we have shared not only the studio space but also our domestic spaces, ancestral house, educational learning spaces, family functions and travels, sketchbook pages, lunch boxes, car journeys, earphones and the music in it. This shared living meant that our individual journeys, over the years, collided with our collective one ' sharing, modifying, transforming our understandings and notions of architecture and space-making as a continuous constant process. Within our practice, we draw inspiration from everything we see, hear or feel both as individuals and as a collective and see architecture as a political act.

The meaning of utterances, actions and events are affected by their 'local position'. We read out our site notes while we move through a procession in one of our site exhibitions. We move from the neighbourhood to the underconstruction building. In this process, a revised exchange of relationship is built between the labourer’s, the villagers and us. The actors - villagers - become 'actorized' as they hear themselves in the stories. There is also 'us' becoming 'narrators' looking at things making the building rather than the building itself. The listener of the stories - the villagers - who have been participants to the house in a spectatorial position - but have been impacted by its stories - become active agents as they hear themselves.

The performance work aims to trace the invisible economic exchanges in land values which exists and builds upon Mike Bal’s theory of the gaze.

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Photo credits -Studio Abhishek Sawant