To create a nomadic space for hybrid art practices. It is a laboratory for people cross- disciplinary practices. The project focuses on the creation of a network space for negotiating the challenge of contemporary cultural production. It is located on a ferry barge on river Brahmaputra and is docked in Guwhati, Assam.

Periferry acts as a threshold, the place where all places meet and dialogue about collaborative practices and cultural resistance takes place. It offers the possibility of keeping up endless processes of movement, of enthusiastic resistance where the important thing is the fact of moving rather than performance of each group or individual.

It provides a space for experimentation and new media approaches, public and community arts, which are based in and relevant to the immediate local and aim at the empowerment of the community and reclaiming the public space, at the same time connecting also with the Global.

GOALS

• To promote experimentation and an interdisciplinary approach using art, ecology, technology, media and science
• To create a public space and public domain, physical as well as virtual for critical reflections.
• To bring focus to issues and concerns of the region
• To encourage engagement with communities and develop a methodology for this.
• To explore new constellations of artistic collaborations and relationships that challenge traditional hierarchical and autocratic strategies
• To develop networks – local, national and with Southeast Asian countries
• To move beyond the center- periphery, global-local dialectics to renegotiate the role of local in the global.
• To create an archive and to relook at and privilege indigenous knowledge bases.
• To develop the ferry as ecologically friendly space and focus on ecological concerns and climate changeTo extend pedagogy and outreach