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URL:https://map-india.org/map-events/towards-a-new-commons-technology-medi
 a-and-dalit-cultural-practices/
SUMMARY:Towards a New Commons: Technology\, Media and Dalit Cultural Practi
 ces
DESCRIPTION:Image credits: Vishal Kumaraswamy/Marana\nIn this talk\, we hea
 r from Vishal Kumaraswamy\, an artist-curator about his practices and proj
 ects. Stemming from anti-caste working principles\, his practice brings to
 gether traditional and experimental forms to investigate the entanglements
  of body\, caste\, language\, technology\, and society. He is interested i
 n the power and potential of media technologies to imagine embodied\, gest
 ural ways of fostering the further development of Dalit cultural practices
 .\n\nCentral to their inquiry is the continuity of Dalit ritualistic and c
 ultural practices\, Marana (on funeral processions) and how these embodied
  performances are impacted by shifting urban spaces and technological inte
 rvention. Kumaraswamy investigates how technology can be repurposed to doc
 ument and sustain these legacies rather than erase them. He creates space 
 for new\, collaborative modes of representation that challenge dominant ur
 ban narratives.\n\nThe event is presented as part of a monthly series that
  brings in artists and artistic practices rooted in Bengaluru\, developed 
 in collaboration with Ananya Drishya.
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