The Shunya Theory

As the video designer for the performance, I was invited by the team to imagine and visualize the diverse worlds of these five characters and how they might manifest through projections in an otherwise "realistic" play that relies on performance and text as the primary mediums of storytelling. After many rounds of discussions and experiments with inputs from the director Himaniie Panth and scenography Harshita Luba Guha, we brought together different video styles and techniques to create a subtle, yet meaningful design for the performance. The projections also serve to take audiences beyond the text, into the past histories of these characters as well as their current emotional state. There is also an aspect of projection mapping, that enabled us to activate parts of the stage properties and give them new meaning.