Performance at the Urban Periphery

This volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with particular focus on festivals and performances in South India. It is themed around heritage, everyday life, and future ecologies, will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance, heritage studies, ecology, and art history.

Autorentext

Cathy Turner is Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter.

Sharada Srinivasan is Professor of Archaeology in the School of Humanities at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru.

Jerri Daboo is Professor of Performance at the University of Exeter.

Anindya Sinha is Professor of Animal Behaviour and Cognition at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India, and Honorary Research Fellow at the College of Humanities in Exeter University, UK.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

List of images

Introduction

Cathy Turner, Jerri Daboo, Sharada Srinivasan, and Anindya Sinha

1 The spaces of everyday performance

Narendar Pani

Photo essay 1: Maha Shivaratri, 2018: a journey through Bengaluru

Cathy Turner and Anne Fenk with photography by Siddarth Sumitran

Part one: heritage

Introduction: heritage

Cathy Turner, Jerri Daboo, Sharada Srinivasan, and Anindya Sinha

2 Crossing thresholds: transgressing space, identity and performance in the Urur-Olcott Kuppam Vizha in Chennai

Jerri Daboo

3 Performing craft, crafting performance: from the tangible to intangible in craft and performance heritage

Sharada Srinivasan

4 Staging the temple as a living experience of a distant past

Smriti Haricharan

Photo essay 2: Heritage performances at Tripunithura

Cathy Turner

Part two: everyday life

Introduction: everyday life

Cathy Turner, Jerri Daboo, Sharada Srinivasan, and Anindya Sinha

5 The production of locality at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2016)

Cathy Turner

6 Spectacle and subversion at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018)

Cathy Turner

7 Performing the digital city: flash mob performance and social exclusion in Bengaluru's 'new' India

Rebecca Savory Fuller

Photo essay 3: fermented frontier: between north and south

Lawai BemBem

Part three: environment

Introduction: environment

Cathy Turner, Jerri Daboo, Sharada Srinivasan, and Anindya Sinha

8 Musings from the Vrishchikotsavam of Tripunithura: the uncertain future of the performing temple elephants of Kerala

Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan and Anindya Sinha

9 Primate performances in a contact zone: interspecies communication and benefaction in a synurbising forest of Southern India

Sarada Natarajan and Anindya Sinha

10 Performing the Poromboke at the Urur-Olcott Kuppam Vizha, Chennai

Sharada Srinivasan and Cathy Turner

Photo essay 4: on the threshold of Urur Kuppam

Cathy Turner

Index