Dominique Savitri Bonarjee's portfolio: The nameless art of collapse and transformation

Current projects

Scores of Unknowing (June, 2025) collaboration with electronic textile artist Mika Satomi in Berlin.

Funded by Hibou Foundation. Hosted by Backsteinboot studios.

Join us for the sharing of work on 21 June 2025.

Sui Generis, Noguchi Space, Tokyo (2013)

Scores of Unknowing began at Metaorganism curated by Jonathan Reus: Twente University (2023)

Experiences

Intuitions & impressions

The Mind Rave is an immersive experience created through dance, a live electronic soundscape, public participation and the interaction of various objects in space. The public is compelled to partake through objects that can be activated during the performance: cylindrical head pieces (carefully worn as ‘attention cocoons’), turquoise scented jelly (to be held in a handful) and broken mirrors (used to direct the light onto the performance stage). The experience generates a ritualistic and meditative space where the participants lose themselves in time. The impermanent installation galvanises a space of heightened yet soft haptic sensoriality, which can never be repeated a second time: each experience is unique to the specific iteration.

Giulia Casalini (curator)

“…it was a remembering but not in [an] easy woolly domestic way, [but] as in a remembering of the wild, terrifying and beautiful core of the universe, like a de-construction of everything that individuates - a calling to a home that is vast and unknowable.”

Sophie Hughes

(artist & curator)

[COLLAPSE, London] felt like such a privilege to witness that aching and beautiful act of collective grieving (which is one of the many wonderful things I think it felt like).

In amongst the collective there were all the very individual expressions of exhaustion and the vulnerability was sad, beautiful and made me feel angry and protective.

Collapse, yes but I also felt some comfort in the rest it promised after.

Passers by were very into it. A German tourist mum was suggesting to her children it was the “stress of the world” another guy was saying how sad it was (in a complimentary way) and another man who I think worked in the building was really delighted by it and kept exclaiming “Why not?!”