Performing the South Indian Street; a practice research portfolio of curated art works.
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 6585
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
- Bengaluru and Kochi, India
- Brief description of type
- Curatorial process and performance documentation, artists’ book, articles and papers.
- Open access status
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- Month
- November
- Year
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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10
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Research Process
Drawing on twenty years’ experience of walking practice, this project asked whether performance-related art might prompt inclusive discussions of the social tensions of South Indian street space. This research represented the practical component of Turner’s AHRC/GCRF-funded international network, ‘The Politics of Performance on the Urban Periphery in South India’. Turner curated performance outputs and led discussion in Bengaluru (February 2018) and collaborated on a related artists’ publication, designed for Fort Kochi, Kerala (November 2019).
The curated performance works responded to a brief set by Turner and all took place on the street. The collaboration took the form of an artists’ ‘Mis-Guide’, which prompted consideration of Fort Kochi, drawing attention to local detail, spatial inequality and marginalised histories.
Research Insights
The project:
- Identified themes for artistic intervention concerning language, sexuality, ethnicity and environment, facilitating dialogues with students, Kannada speakers, and between ethnicities (1a, 1c, 1g).
- Developed methodologies for collaboration across artforms and continents (1a-g, 2 b-f).
- Identified possibilities and limitations for art-led dialogue (1a, 1c, 1e, 1f, 2e).
- Extended the possibilities for walking art by bringing European neo-Situationist practices into dialogue with South Indian contemporary art concerned with location and social change (1c, 2a, 2e).
- Identified ways in which art might prompt critical engagement with the international art festival, prompting engagement with location beyond the festival venues (2a, 2e).
Dissemination (to date)
‘Navigation’, authored article in Performance Research journal, 2018.
Symposium, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, February 2018. Papers by commissioned artists and Turner.
Artist-Researcher Discussion at 1 Shanti Road, Bengaluru, addressing research questions provided by Turner.
Papers given at Exeter University on the ‘Mis-Guide’.
Exhibition of ‘Mis-Guide’ work-in-progress at NIAS, April 2019
A Mis-Guide to Kochi, 2019, hard copy/online.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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