Chronocorpus

Chronocorpus emerged out of the personal histories of Sofia Varino, a Lisbon based performance artist, and May Joseph, whose cultural moorings include Doha, Dar-es-salaam, Cochin, and the former Batavia, now modern Djakarta. Their intertwining shared histories of Portuguese and Dutch maritime pasts and their attendant colonial encounters in Asia, Africa and the Americas provide the roots for this journey into contemporary landscapes and fifteenth century cartographies.

Vasco Da Gama’s home in Cochin, Bartolomeu Dias’s first landing at the Cape of Storms — or Cabo de Tormentoso, later to be called Cape of Good Hope — and the hidden histories of sea route economies are the thematic linkages for this montage of sea faring stories about colonial pasts, forgotten traumas, diasporic reinventions, and modern struggles for new cultural expressivities.