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- VENUE S - 17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi - 110017
- START DATE 30/01/2015 30-01-2015 30-01-2015 68 On Mourning Khoj International Artists’ Association supported by Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi and The Royal Norwegian Embassy Presents On Mourning A live event at Khoj Studios, S – 17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi – 110017. […] S - 17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi - 110017 Organizer Organizer e-mail true DD/MM/YYYY
- END DATE 30/01/2015 30-01-2015 30-01-2015 68 On Mourning Khoj International Artists’ Association supported by Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi and The Royal Norwegian Embassy Presents On Mourning A live event at Khoj Studios, S – 17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi – 110017. […] S - 17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi - 110017 Organizer Organizer e-mail true DD/MM/YYYY
- PARTICIPANTS Amitesh Grover
On Mourning
Khoj International Artists’ Association
supported by
Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi
and
The Royal Norwegian Embassy
Presents
On Mourning
A live event at Khoj Studios, S – 17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi – 110017.
Date: 30th January, Friday
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
To refuse to mourn is to condemn a trauma to repeat itself ad infinitum. But can repeated mourning ever take the form of a productive practice?
How can we (un)learn through exposure to absence? Despite the intensely personal nature of mourning, to witness a mourner often makes tangible the intimate, aching anguish that all of us have felt at some point. On Mourning is a live event that will extend the positions on trauma in Khoj’s exhibition Nameless Here For Evermore, by setting up a dialogue with a traditional performative practice.
Lakshmi, a professional mourner for the last 20 years is in conversation with Janagi, a young person interested in learning the ritual/performance form. Traditionally a practice where women sing in mourning of a man’s passing, Lakshmi transforms this ritual by performing an intense autobiographical composition, which extends beyond a single event/deceased body. The event is designed as a pedagogical interaction, wherein Lakshmi shares, recounts, and performs in response to the question of whether mourning can ever take form as a productive practice.
The event has been conceptualized in collaboration with Amitesh Grover, Shaunak Sen and Arnika Ahldag.
TAGS Catharsis, Culture, Indian Contemporary Art, Mourning, Performance, Ritual, Shared Performance, Tradition, Trauma
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