Abhishek Khedekar – Tamasha Documentary Softcover booklet housed in oversized

Softcover booklet housed in oversized folded poster

thanks to its original manufacturing principle combining powerful double pages

and their connections with spiritual destiny

installation views of the show at MACRO

In Ellis Ritter’s circular conception of the family

Abhishek Khedekar – Tamasha Documentary Softcover booklet housed in oversizedThe 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