Abhishek Khedekar – Tamasha Documentary Four Corners

Four Corners

In trying to capture the unspoiled aspect of their surroundings

Softcover booklet housed in oversized folded poster

while the black-and-white photographs on the visible pages are recent work of primarily exterior shots taken in January and February of 2021

public and private

Abhishek Khedekar – Tamasha Documentary Four CornersThe 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