We end the day with a boundary-defying performance by the Jangama Collective. The play titled Daklakatha Devikavya , is an experimental play drawing on the epic poetry and stories of the important Kannada writer and founder-member of the Dalit Sangharsha Samiti, K.B. Siddaiah. This experimental piece begins with a re-reading of a cosmogonic myth and evolves through weaving untouchable ritual, belief, hunger and desire through song and storytelling. The play provokes how the received insights through the experience of untouchability force us to confront what it means to be human in the depths of our being.

Jangama Collective is a Bangalore-based group of theatre artists with diverse cultural backgrounds who believe in creating cultural and political awareness choosing theatre as their way of expression. As an extension of this, the group has engaged itself in creative processes like education, literature, publishing, cinema and social struggles.

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Week 02 | Resident Curator T.M.Krishna

The often-used phrase ‘Art transcends Boundaries’ has become an axiom. However, the truth is that it is not art but the artist who enables a limitless embrace. The contours of an artistic creation are in the artist’s hands. The agency of art is truly that of the artist. Only when the artist intends it does art become a powerful transformative body that questions, teases, and brings down societal barricades.

– T.M. Krishna