About The Event
Mezok explores labour, migration and what it means to belong in a place, in the present times. In this era of globalisation, where hordes of people move to bigger cities, to foreign countries, in the hope of a better life, what does a migrant worker take with him? What does he leave behind? What does it mean to have a better life? It explores how labour affects the two genders, often uprooting working-age men from their villages and towns, while the women hold together homes and economies built around waiting and absence. It casts a close look at the migrant labour in big cities that is faceless and voiceless - watchmen outside huge malls, Uber drivers in cities, women without men working in farmlands, the often uneducated, underprivileged whose labour is accepted but their humanity is not. The piece examines this movement through the endless system of application forms, identity cards, permits, licences, permanent addresses, passport numbers, account numbers, block numbers, room numbers, window numbers, token numbers, and the labyrinth that consumes lives and dreams. At the centre of this continual movement is an unmovable mountain, a metaphor for the desires we carry within us like mountains.
Mezok explores this labour through the physical dramaturgy of a shape-shifting table and the bodies of the actors, the stillness of a mountain set against the continuous movement of migration, desire and dreams.
