Artists need safe and supportive spaces to test their work while it is still being made and receive a first set of responses. To this end, Pickle Factory is delighted to revive Scratch! – an evening of works-in-progress followed by a structured and facilitated feedback session with the audience. Our Scratch! model was tested during Season 2 in November 2019, and we hoep to now make it an annual feature for artists based in and around Calcutta.
A work-in-progress platform is needed not just to share process, but for artists to receive feedback in a manner that helps them take inputs back into the work. The Scratch! experience will include a thorough feedback process using the tried and tested internationally known Arts Feedback Methodology.
For 2025, our jury selected Naina Punwani and Mukulita Ganguly from a slew of applications. More information below.
The Artists
Naina Punwani | Quicksand 
“I am a passionate dancer in training, exploring diverse forms to expand my movement vocabulary, deepen self-awareness, and discover my body’s unique rhythm, voice, and evolving relationship through expression and physicality.”
Quicksand is a visceral exploration of a performer’s fear of losing control over their body, confronting paralysis, ageing, and anxiety, ultimately finding freedom through acceptance, surrender, and an intimate reckoning with the body as both betrayer and enduring instrument.
Mukulita Ganguly | Duk: All that the Wind Carries
“I am a multidisciplinary movement artist whose work weaves dance, ritual, ecology, and embodied memory. Trained across diverse forms, I create performances and ceremonies worldwide, blending somatics, storytelling, and collaboration to invite healing, intimacy, and deep connection with land and ancestry.“
Duk: All that the Wind Carries is a minimalist, sensorial invocation of Ladakh’s sonic, tactile, and embodied memory—interlacing field recordings, sacred mountain clay, and emergent movement to summon presence, intimacy, and a deep attunement to land, season, and ancestral resonance.
The Jury
Daminee Benny Basu
Debaroti Chakraborty
Shashwati Garai Ghosh
We have worked with Daminee, Debaroti and Shashwati variously as artists, arts administrators, panelists, and facilitators.
Having them on our jury has begun a new relationship.
The Feedback Facilitators
Ninad Samaddar
Ahon Gooptu
Ninad and Ahon have been friends and collaborators in many of our projects.
Both have experience in the Das Arts Feedback Methodology, and we are delighted to have them on board as facilitators for Scratch!
