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Kiosk for a Magic Future: Performance

Bodies Bend Backwards is a research-driven documentary project that explores the intersections of yoga – as both a physical and spiritual practice – with ideological frameworks across historical and contemporary contexts.



The project investigates how yoga has been manipulated and recontextualized by various groups, from early 20th-century cultural figures and National Socialists to present-day Hindu nationalists. It aims to illuminate the political instrumentalization of body practices and their structural ties to appropriation, particularly within German and Indian cultural histories.


For Kiosk for a Magic Future, the project is presented as an installation, activated through the performative lecture Dogmatic Asanas.


  • Part of 7th Berliner Herbstsalon ЯE:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE

(IN ENGLISH)
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By Lea Maria Wittich & Arijit Bhattacharyya
Dates
October 2025
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