Exploring Gender in South-Asian Cultural Memory Through Artistic Process |
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Authors: | Deepak Srinivasan |
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Affiliation: | 1. Independent Artist and Designer, Bangalore, India deep.srin@gmail.com |
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Abstract: | Abstract My artistic inquiries draw from gender and sexuality in public space and use performance as process. In inspiration, the works emerge as aesthetic responses to post-colonial, gendered public identities and as negotiations with the cultural politics of modernity. Dwelling on the interaction of Indian modernity with cultural memory through myth, ritual, traditions and colonial histories, I hope to touch upon multiple influences of the Indian public sphere. Through a fragmented contemplation on guiding impulses, this discussion propositions the production of works as potentials to re-eroticise the public sphere. |
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Keywords: | Artistic practice colonial histories cultural memory gender modernity mythology public space queer rights South-Asia |
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