Plan your Fort Kochi visit with day-by-day itineraries for April & May 2026. Morning cafes, heritage walks, sunset times & night plans all in one place.
This is our Fort Kochi insider guide for you curated experiences, updated regularly by the cats who call this place home. Whether you're here for the Heritage, the food, or just the light on the harbour at dusk, we've got you.
The Anchal Post Runners ran with postal bags balanced on their heads and carried a two-foot staff with bells attached. When people heard the bells coming down the road, they made way.
Being watched creates a continuous negotiation between what we are, who we want to be, and how we are seen. Vikas Kumar invites us to cultivate an active gaze of our own.
Artist
Vikas Kumar (JLN Govt. College of Art, Shimla)
Medium
Performance Prints and Video
Venue
Vallabhdas Kanji Limited (VKL) Warehouse, Mattancherry, Fort Kochi, Kerala
VKL WArehouse, MATTANCHERRY
Landmark: Opposite Canara Bank, Near Mattancherry Government Hospital
Through their eyes is a performance presented through video, accordion book, and graphic prints. Through imagery and performative gestures, Vikas examines how the gaze influences behaviour and self-perception.
The action of embodying the eye to return the gaze becomes a recurring motif. It confronts viewers while revealing the artist's own vulnerabilities—exposing patterns of observation, judgement, and self-perception.
Living in Shimla, the former summer capital of British India, has made Vikas critical of the colonial gaze and its residues on local people and landscape. This work asks: what happens when we look back?
Kochi Biennale 2025
Kochi Biennale 2025-26
The Students' Biennale, running alongside the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, has always been a space where tomorrow's artistic giants take their first bold leaps.
Plan your Fort Kochi visit with day-by-day itineraries for April & May 2026. Morning cafes, heritage walks, sunset times & night plans all in one place.
This is our Fort Kochi insider guide for you curated experiences, updated regularly by the cats who call this place home. Whether you're here for the Heritage, the food, or just the light on the harbour at dusk, we've got you.
