multi-sensory art and immersive spaces/
performance/ sensory research/ architecture
PORTFOLIO 2013-2022
performance/ sensory research/ architecture
I am a multi-disciplinary artist
from India currently based in
Czech Republic.
I trained as
an architect, scenographer and
educator.
My artistic practice, Studio
MoreThanThat, includes
architecture, intimate
performances and events, and
immersive storytelling.
I take a phenomenological
approach in my projects and
design experiences that are
centered around the sensory
spectrum (touch, smell,
taste, sound and sight) of the
spectator.
Please find my full CV here.
NITISH JAIN
I am a multi-disciplinary artist
from India currently based in
Czech Republic.
I trained as
an architect, scenographer and
educator.
My artistic practice, Studio
MoreThanThat, includes
architecture, intimate
performances and events, and
immersive storytelling.
I take a phenomenological
approach in my projects and
design experiences that are
centered around the sensory
spectrum (touch, smell,
taste, sound and sight) of the
spectator.
Please find my full CV here.
NITISH JAIN
Spoonfed
an intimate, multi-sensory performance
3 audience and 3 performers. Blindfolds, headphones and warm hands. We explore tenderness and care through touch and simple earthly stories inspired by the mother figures in folktales. This is a sensory adventure to inner discoveries with tactile objects, scents, stories and above all, imagination.
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Temple of Chroma
A chromatic tasting experience
Welcome to your initiation ceremony into the Temple of Chroma: a long-forgotten cult that is being revived in this age where we walk the earth blinded by sight. Welcome to this temple where light and color exist without burdened by shape or form. As offerings for the mother goddess, participate in rituals that actively connect taste and sight, and involve your senses in discovery and play. The temple offers a chance to reconfigure our relationship with the visual world - and sense it anew.
Stories [from],
[to] and [by]
Faraway lands
Recording, sharing and experiencing stories is humanity's primary social instinct. Across cultures and time, stories and their telling are manifested in varied forms. A continuous cycle of creating traditions, rituals and discovering new forms of expression. Thus, new forms of art and engagement with narratives emerge. Combining three elements- Czech folklore, Nordic folk music and an Indo Persian tradition of oral storytelling - Dastangoi, this is a walking-theatre, storytelling performance.
Sense and Edibility
Blindfolded, community dinners
How do we perceive, try and savor food
when we can’t see it?
Close your eyes and imagine eating an ice-
cream bar this way! How will you hold it? and
how will you intuitively know where to get the
first bite?
A-where-ness
A manual for exploring Prague through the senses
How often do we relate our cities with what we touch, smell, hear and taste? Even when we are looking, how much are we overlooking? For any curious explorer, this guidebook opens new ways of sensing the city through embodied actions
Ticklish Fruits
A synesthetic, multi-media artwork
At Hogwarts School oWaW there is
a large painting of a bowl
of fruit. It
is an ill-kept secret that if you tickle
the pear on
this painting, it giggles.
What is magic without curiosity and
imagination?
Belly of the Two-Headed Beast
Wouldn’t it be fun to take an artsy nap
in an exhibition, gallery or museum?
This installation invites an individual
spectator to crawl inside, lie down
and listen to an audio narrative that
is inspired by ASMR and mindfulness
therapy. In your relaxed yet aware
state in the tent, you discover
fragments of imagery that feel like a
dreamscape.
Time and fragrances merge: the
memory of an infant’s crib mobile
transforms into scents that are
dancing on clockwork above you in
this dark belly.
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
A scenographic installation for staging this popular comedy by Shakespeare where the contrasting worlds of Athens (representing order and rigidity) and the Forest (representing chaos and flexibility) collide. Designed for Divadlo DISK, Prague, a black box theatre, we interpret this collision from a contemporary standpoint: reality is a bubble in the larger whole of illusion. This leads us to the forest- a strange world inside devices which is full of sounds and noises. Puck is the maestro of this postmodern, postinternet orchestra
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Fčil Espresso Bar
Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic
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An elegant and cozy espresso bar, tucked in a 20 sqm space, serving the best coffee in Uherské Hradiště. We approached the interiors to highlight the barista as the star of the space; the customers to feel alert and stimulated; and the atmosphere to immerse the senses and breathe in the mix of rich, earthy, dark and woody, and roasted aromas.
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Exposition of Czech Republic
Days of Heritage Festival 2018, Sharjah UAE
Tactile Environment
As part of Blue Hour Installation at
Prague Quadrennial, 2019
Led by Tereza Stehlikova.
An experimental, interactive environment created at PQ 2019. The Blue Hour team, led by Romain Tardy, brought various areas of design such as light, sound, video, projection, AR, VR and sensory art into a dialogue through a tight collaboration. While Blue Hour was largely technology-heavy, the Tactile Environments work group contrasted this by grounding the audience in the familiar world of natural matter, with all its richness of texture and scent. Amidst the multi-media, visual spectacles we reframed nature subversively in the form of six miniature landscapes. Each of these invited people to rediscover their childhood playfulness, instigated by proximity senses, such as touch and smell.
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Fine Dining
A participatory performance
Director: Eva Rosemarijn
India International
Jewellery Show
These installations were created for the
annual editions of the IIJS exhibition
during 2010 and 2015 in Mumbai.
I created these projects while working as
an architect at Atelier Anonyme Design,
New Delhi.
