A Reflection on Curating for Change
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In this virtual presentation, Amitesh Grover (National School of Drama, India) approaches festival-making as an act of framing a temporary history of the present.
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With Amitesh Grover (National School of Drama, India)
In this virtual presentation, I approach festival-making as an act of framing a temporary history of the present. I will use as example my curation of the International Theatre Festival of Kerala (2020) to discuss the possibilities and challenges of a program that critiqued mainstream ideas on citizenship and patriotism, nationhood and freedom, migration and human rights. Through this example, I hope to explore the act of festival-making as the making of a public that upholds culture’s power to acknowledge and embrace the tumult that seethes under state and social censorship.
This presentation is part of Curating for Change: The Work That Music Festivals Do in the World.
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This event is co-presented by CIRCLE.