https://spinapot.com Shivani Pinapotu Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:47:10 +0000 https://spinapot.com en https://spinapot.com/Home Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:47:10 +0000 Shivani Pinapotu https://spinapot.com/Home ︎ <img width="3000" height="2163" width_o="3000" height_o="2163" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d811d6f77288d8b3fbd9513481c47d4ec33d082126aa6f5fec81f217a67dd896/EX2023.13_install-v_20.jpg" data-mid="235463658" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d811d6f77288d8b3fbd9513481c47d4ec33d082126aa6f5fec81f217a67dd896/EX2023.13_install-v_20.jpg" />(un)heard voices, RISD Museum A participatory installation that makes the human experience of the RISD Museum visible. <img width="2046" height="1148" width_o="2046" height_o="1148" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f9b82eba27429385d9c3f1797c97551964d44c0f78abf2182e471656da11431/Poreless-2.jpeg" data-mid="235463601" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f9b82eba27429385d9c3f1797c97551964d44c0f78abf2182e471656da11431/Poreless-2.jpeg" /> Poreless (2025)&nbsp;premiered at the Aspens ShortFest, and the Tribeca Film Festival, among others. <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb3e5eb0d0f6317d5c09b82cc60d5d75dc98ba60608b13b136014695e627ad48/de-munt-mzmymta0ndiynq.jpg" data-mid="235849240" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb3e5eb0d0f6317d5c09b82cc60d5d75dc98ba60608b13b136014695e627ad48/de-munt-mzmymta0ndiynq.jpg" /> WHITE BOX, Brown Arts InstituteA poetic and impressionistic distortion of the story of the 1897 Polarex expedition, unraveling the dramatic journey of the three scientists and blending it with a bizarre parallel tale of the life of the lost photographs since their emergence. <img width="3780" height="945" width_o="3780" height_o="945" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5d87b47e558a7e8f2ab88fad1bde324e0c6ccaf6095107b4a24f5e304755440/making-playces.jpg" data-mid="185086514" border="0" data-scale="98" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5d87b47e558a7e8f2ab88fad1bde324e0c6ccaf6095107b4a24f5e304755440/making-playces.jpg" /> making pla(y)cesSoftening the city by learning from the way children make places in play (She even built a play parklet as a prototype!) <img width="2311" height="852" width_o="2311" height_o="852" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/794b5131d8721e2042ea3532b25fee29ef87f1dd3bdfeb9cb8c0c5bd39207127/SoulT.png" data-mid="186939720" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/794b5131d8721e2042ea3532b25fee29ef87f1dd3bdfeb9cb8c0c5bd39207127/SoulT.png" />Soul Tapes, Trinity Repertory, ProvidenceSet in the year 2105, the story of Soul Tapes takes us through the journey of two creatives’ relationship when it is challenged by a higher celestial force.&nbsp; <img width="3795" height="2550" width_o="3795" height_o="2550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e9e528bcc97b3b222d61665a0b5860cd4e8f38acae8046e87eecbdf6d7a2415/Dan-Barber-Pop-Up-Render_2.png" data-mid="188239871" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e9e528bcc97b3b222d61665a0b5860cd4e8f38acae8046e87eecbdf6d7a2415/Dan-Barber-Pop-Up-Render_2.png" /> Omakase, Boston Pop-Up Dining as a program model to support the retail business for interior design products.&nbsp; <img width="2640" height="1632" width_o="2640" height_o="1632" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b466ac7d68d0749fd309106058f7be4e0fa58c7c02a99b2d82b1d720cbcf0ad7/Fun-Home.png" data-mid="186939013" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b466ac7d68d0749fd309106058f7be4e0fa58c7c02a99b2d82b1d720cbcf0ad7/Fun-Home.png" />Fun Home, Trinity Repertory, Providence The set design was inspired by a Pillowfort. <img width="828" height="1320" width_o="828" height_o="1320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b050b3e92dfd3b8e84b13ccac3a079390de093153ed9435388cb34b25cdb091/Fairview.png" data-mid="186944176" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/828/i/5b050b3e92dfd3b8e84b13ccac3a079390de093153ed9435388cb34b25cdb091/Fairview.png" /> Fairview, Trinity RepertoryCirque de Soleil takes centrestage in this interpretation of the famous Sibbles-Drury play. <img width="2614" height="1668" width_o="2614" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ae9a6815581267a393f51f733dff76104c8c8ad35d0407a9863906f7b5fad38/MacB.png" data-mid="186939332" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ae9a6815581267a393f51f733dff76104c8c8ad35d0407a9863906f7b5fad38/MacB.png" /> Macbeth, Trinity Repertory, ProvidenceThe story of Macbeth is reimagined by situating it from the point of view of Lady Macbeth. <img width="2918" height="1186" width_o="2918" height_o="1186" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45d8f3270192dbd07bb7cb6bae372d4f6ae93eed0d0e8680017557aaa85e2ca2/Umea.png" data-mid="186942477" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45d8f3270192dbd07bb7cb6bae372d4f6ae93eed0d0e8680017557aaa85e2ca2/Umea.png" /> The Road Not Taken, Umea, Sweden An investigation of the relationship between infrastructure, landscape and the community of Teg, Umea. <img width="1249" height="937" width_o="1249" height_o="937" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd66a02ea2bb438b12d151fa68b752c43483549a3079789dbfeca015827a2ca5/Food-Truck-Zone_Final.png" data-mid="185076181" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd66a02ea2bb438b12d151fa68b752c43483549a3079789dbfeca015827a2ca5/Food-Truck-Zone_Final.png" />Streets For People, Bangalore The public life on 4th Street, Bangalore is reimagined in collaboration with Studio Sorted as part of a competition proposal. She previously dabbled in design journalism and wrote for several online publications, bringing together critical inquiry and her experience in material craft to explore how environments shape, and are shaped by, collective narratives. <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2192f4cdda71d024dac69a4d5a6b76376653a531adcff0800e6456ad95431e9/e6d436a0-884e-43c7-8366-abaae2a0463c.jpg" data-mid="235234122" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/d2192f4cdda71d024dac69a4d5a6b76376653a531adcff0800e6456ad95431e9/e6d436a0-884e-43c7-8366-abaae2a0463c.jpg" /> Most recently, she edited the preface for&nbsp;Lost in Transit&nbsp;by Anubha Verma,&nbsp;a photographic study of Mumbai’s taxis and the subculture of the city’s taximen. <img width="3004" height="1776" width_o="3004" height_o="1776" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64f90a2273e136926b77215af42288d14d646b2d127cb2c3639b4510a040a26c/8.jpg" data-mid="206810998" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64f90a2273e136926b77215af42288d14d646b2d127cb2c3639b4510a040a26c/8.jpg" /> She also illustrated and wrote Echoes of the Kitchen: A synesthetic portrait of two worlds for dhoop*, a series of synesthetic diptychs of two kitchens in tandem, her mother's in Delhi and hers in Providence, in an attempt to remember the sounds in her kitchen as she frantically tries and make sense of her own. <img width="654" height="872" width_o="654" height_o="872" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce235fe75b0c44054874d26b18df6afa58140667a59f777a9736e0ac24343699/IMG_2857.jpg" data-mid="206811009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/654/i/ce235fe75b0c44054874d26b18df6afa58140667a59f777a9736e0ac24343699/IMG_2857.jpg" /> <img width="654" height="872" width_o="654" height_o="872" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a87b37f4d2a03d48a2d25d88b76306cf4d85edae5f1207e6fb522121863ee42b/IMG_2819.jpg" data-mid="206811175" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/654/i/a87b37f4d2a03d48a2d25d88b76306cf4d85edae5f1207e6fb522121863ee42b/IMG_2819.jpg" /> <img width="654" height="872" width_o="654" height_o="872" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c24fa523d69e6b249f0b750bc28cfcd55b9063aa1c96fbcff1409a24805bba68/IMG_2805.jpg" data-mid="206811200" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/654/i/c24fa523d69e6b249f0b750bc28cfcd55b9063aa1c96fbcff1409a24805bba68/IMG_2805.jpg" /> As part of her wintersession course, she conceptualised, directed and enacted a synesthetic performance to evoke the memory of childhood, which became the foundation of her thesis, making pla(y)ces. <img width="1098" height="1856" width_o="1098" height_o="1856" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e9ba34c5e390ce3616dd73516c0dd17d17f4d1a36f400b6aee029806b31f5c8/Printmaking-20.jpg" data-mid="206811403" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e9ba34c5e390ce3616dd73516c0dd17d17f4d1a36f400b6aee029806b31f5c8/Printmaking-20.jpg" /> She tried her hands at intaglio printmaking two years back and fell in love. <img width="953" height="1970" width_o="953" height_o="1970" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b61475b02617dde19ef493b22379b9ca19335a48e0d271b7514026837bb95470/Printmaking-19-1.png" data-mid="206811459" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/953/i/b61475b02617dde19ef493b22379b9ca19335a48e0d271b7514026837bb95470/Printmaking-19-1.png" /> Dorothy takes cues from the Wizard of Oz in this longform visual narrative. <img width="861" height="1161" width_o="861" height_o="1161" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b10dfbfb5e14ae1ed819585a0f92e7f9eb4a84ccc1e543bcdcaa1480a58f2e1/Printmaking-15.jpg" data-mid="206811415" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/861/i/0b10dfbfb5e14ae1ed819585a0f92e7f9eb4a84ccc1e543bcdcaa1480a58f2e1/Printmaking-15.jpg" /> She narrates a story between the sea, the body and the sky in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part I, with close references from Coleridge’s poem. <img width="2799" height="4134" width_o="2799" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01685797996f4349a0ee84d671a9ee8cd780f4d346a00d413b96fce8d5da196f/The-Collaged-Imaged.jpg" data-mid="206811483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01685797996f4349a0ee84d671a9ee8cd780f4d346a00d413b96fce8d5da196f/The-Collaged-Imaged.jpg" /> <img width="3304" height="2232" width_o="3304" height_o="2232" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3538cda077a1e599ad86902a3e227c24922c2fc0fc6283947d2847cdec20b888/Pillowfort.png" data-mid="206811468" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3538cda077a1e599ad86902a3e227c24922c2fc0fc6283947d2847cdec20b888/Pillowfort.png" /> Inspired by Kensuke Koike, she used the process of kirigrami to introduce multi-lateral readings of the text of Marshmallow Worlds as a conceptual translation of the pillowfort. <img width="4456" height="2419" width_o="4456" height_o="2419" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6596d49e8be038ee6fc981c841f23f0b4bcc7066909788b3b00aace1e31a4af/Printmaking-8.jpg" data-mid="206811447" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6596d49e8be038ee6fc981c841f23f0b4bcc7066909788b3b00aace1e31a4af/Printmaking-8.jpg" /> Dusk reveals the glory before the fall of the sun. <img width="2865" height="3732" width_o="2865" height_o="3732" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/525f84b5f2c4831b6fd2a5a450977241254df2d2f2294b49f5b1d4abe8fb8ef4/Frida.png" data-mid="206811479" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/525f84b5f2c4831b6fd2a5a450977241254df2d2f2294b49f5b1d4abe8fb8ef4/Frida.png" /> She enjoys communicating in digital collages! This concept collage was made as part of her design for an exhibition on Frida Kahlo. <img width="1245" height="847" width_o="1245" height_o="847" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d997aa58780f6f22e0ad1e0c72ace43c79dfa5d6fe6bb4ea9e7d48d1b27b4f7/Afterparties-copy.png" data-mid="206811471" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d997aa58780f6f22e0ad1e0c72ace43c79dfa5d6fe6bb4ea9e7d48d1b27b4f7/Afterparties-copy.png" /><img width="1200" height="825" width_o="1200" height_o="825" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e12f11927fb2518db939767771af92a78ea297a77d4a9b1beb68c27f0ff88da2/Tech-Tatva.jpg" data-mid="206811461" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e12f11927fb2518db939767771af92a78ea297a77d4a9b1beb68c27f0ff88da2/Tech-Tatva.jpg" /> She sketches a lot. These became postcards to her friend. <img width="3508" height="3035" width_o="3508" height_o="3035" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3850547b9f64c2f6f80b6351102ed6de4cdfe450049fc94f0bd686213988efa0/Render.jpg" data-mid="185077131" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3850547b9f64c2f6f80b6351102ed6de4cdfe450049fc94f0bd686213988efa0/Render.jpg" /> Rooting, KMC Greens, ManipalKiosk design for the Graduation Ceremony of the Class of 2018. <img width="11355" height="5801" width_o="11355" height_o="5801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63ccaf022374145deccdafb8085d9dfe1fb2f6cb45e90e2ea83d8b3cefcd1d7d/CRP-copy.jpg" data-mid="186943874" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63ccaf022374145deccdafb8085d9dfe1fb2f6cb45e90e2ea83d8b3cefcd1d7d/CRP-copy.jpg" /> A Central Spirit of Unity, CR Park, New DelhiInspired by Rabinadranath’s essay, “City and Village” (1924), CR Park is revitalised though place-making strategies.