Abhishek Khedekar – Tamasha

Abhishek Khedekar – TamashaThe inaugural winner of the Publishing Performance residency and book award uses sculpture, collage and reappropriation to capture the synaesthesia of a rural Indian working class spectacle. Indian artist Abhishek Khedekar's experimental docu fiction follows a 100 person nomadic troupe of Dalit 'families' performing Tamasha: a travelling form of performance combining dance, music, and visual art dating back to the 1800s. As post independence India

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40 pictures

since the late 1980s it has become synonymous with a political and sectarian conflict which strikes at the very heart of India’s identity

Included in the book is an interview with the artist by José Diaz

Set of two Table-Mates Small in semi-soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1998 for Fish Design collection

Accompanying this installation is an exclusive limited edition print

Dialect covers three years of state violence for nine young Moroccan migrants exiled in Kafka-esque limbo in Seville

encountering moments of haunting mystery and beautiful impermanence

I’d approach people and ask them timidly to pose for me[

available from October 06

Debossed Softcover

The series is more of a reaction to the modern world rather than an attempted description of it