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CSSS organises a talk by Ameet Parameswaran

CSSS organises a talk by Ameet Parameswaran

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Centre for the Study of Social Systems

School of Social Sciences

CSSS Colloquium

 

 Ameet Parameswaran

(Assistant Professor, SAA/JNU)

 

Will be presenting a paper on

 

Theatricality, Geography and Worksites of Left

 

Date & Time:

April 4th, 2019 (Thursday), 11.00 am

 

Venue:

CSSS Committee Room (Room No: 13), SSS-II

 

 

Abstract: In thinking through the relationship between performance and the political, theorist and theatre scholar Janelle Reinelt (2015), drawing from Etienne Balibar, articulates the need to see performance as a possible ‘worksite of democracy.’ As distinct from a Habermasian position that conjoins citizenship to the category of cosmopolitanism, Balibar articulates a ‘citizenship in making’ arguing that “democratic work requires determinate matter and not just an ethics and juridical norms, and this sort of matter is only given in situation’ (Balibar 2004: 173). The present paper takes forward the framework by arguing that to understand worksites in relation to performance, one need to think through geography and rhythms of everyday. I analyse closely the performance titled, Atlas of Communism, directed by the Argentinean director, Lola Arias in Maxim Gorki theatre in 2016 that looks back at the life under GDR through memories of primarily women aged between 8 and 84 who narrate the truth about their own experience. Analysing how when the testimonials, memories and documents are organised in patterns of contrasts in ‘counter-point,’ the paper explores how the geography and the Left itself is redefined and re-imagined for the contemporary.

Bio: Dr. Ameet Parameswaran is currently Assistant Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and has published articles in the journals such as TRI, Performance Research. His monograph, Performance and the Political: Power and Pleasure in Contemporary Kerala (Orient Blackswan), was published in 2017.  His larger areas of interest are political theatre and performance, neoliberalism, region studies, and performance theory.

 

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