We are now back in Fort Kochi...it feels good to return and we are settling into a quirky Portuguese home stay after two nights in a backpacker hostel in the centre of town...an insight into the travelling youth of today! Talking loudly...planning trains ...where next ...it all sounds like a tick list...heads buried in iPads....phones and laptops...virtually no conversation in a virtual world.
We took the ferry across to Ernakulum to visit the recently restored Durbar Hall, the ultimate venue of the Kochi Muziris biennalle and were bowled over by an incredible installation 'Fin de silencio' by Carlos Garaicoa.
Afterwards a friendly tuk tuk driver took us south to the Kerala Folklore museum, an architectural collage of different old palaces stuffed full of antiquities. Fascinating! On our way back he took us to visit the Dhobi Khana ( wash house) with fields of washing as far as the eye could see, and then a ginger factory in the spice town of Mattancherry.
After at last finding an Internet cafe where the power doesn't go down every five minutes we went for dinner at the Seagull Hotel, where we were amazed to see the director of the biennalle and several of the exhibiting artists deep in conversation, so naturally Charlie went over to speak with them! Worldwide artists networking!
http://www.factum-arte.com/eng/artistas/garaicoa/fin_de_silencio.asp
We took the ferry across to Ernakulum to visit the recently restored Durbar Hall, the ultimate venue of the Kochi Muziris biennalle and were bowled over by an incredible installation 'Fin de silencio' by Carlos Garaicoa.
Afterwards a friendly tuk tuk driver took us south to the Kerala Folklore museum, an architectural collage of different old palaces stuffed full of antiquities. Fascinating! On our way back he took us to visit the Dhobi Khana ( wash house) with fields of washing as far as the eye could see, and then a ginger factory in the spice town of Mattancherry.
After at last finding an Internet cafe where the power doesn't go down every five minutes we went for dinner at the Seagull Hotel, where we were amazed to see the director of the biennalle and several of the exhibiting artists deep in conversation, so naturally Charlie went over to speak with them! Worldwide artists networking!
http://www.factum-arte.com/eng/artistas/garaicoa/fin_de_silencio.asp
