Capitol Center to Open 2015-16 Season of Salon Series with Visual Artist Youdhi Maharajan, 10/9

The Capitol Center for the Arts is pleased to welcome Henniker-based artist Youdhi Maharajan to the historic Kimball House as part of 2015-16 Salon Series on October 9 at 7:30pm.

Youdhi Maharajan is a visual artist from Nepal, currently based in Henniker, NH, who engages in algorithmic and auto-poietic process, which self creates the work and continually perpetuates. It is laborious and repetitive with no definitive end. The meditative and ritualistic power of repetition allows him to experience the making of each mark without worrying about the finished work, where movement is not measured by distance traveled but by the change in state of mind. Each mark is an opportunity to go deeper and discover what can be experienced, learned, and expressed as he surrenders to the material and the process.

Maharajan works with reclaimed text, altering it to create a new language that transcends its humble origin and takes a new life of its own, independent of its prescribed meaning and form. His interest lies in material specificity of text and reasserting the thingness of language, freeing language from its enslavement to meaning, opening it up to new possibilities. His work takes part in linguistic play, exploring and exploiting text at molecular level where the smallest change can cause enough poetic friction to start a new life.

Texts from reclaimed books are erased, scraped off, and cut out individually, and pages braided and weaved with repetitive acts of the body, adding a new mark of unmaking/remaking-rewriting. The act of writing and reading becomes a performance. Ritual. Meditation. Prayer. The act of information retrieval becomes a journey to the unknown destination.

Mr. Maharajan appears through the support of McGowan Fine Art. Mr. Maharajan's work is on display at McGowan Fine Art as part of "Spirituality and Obsession," exhibiting October 13-November 13

This performance is part of the Capitol Center's Salon Series, bringing artists and audiences together for thought-provoking lectures and performances in the intimate, Victorian-era Kimball House.

Tickets for each performance are $25 and are available now by calling 603-225-1111, online at www.ccanh.com, and at the box office, located at 44 South Main Street, Concord, NH 03301, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.