Performance at the Urban Periphery

Cathy Turner is Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter. Sharada Srinivasan is Professor of Archaeology in the School of Humanities at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru. Jerri Daboo is Professor of Performance at the University of Exeter. Anindya Sinha is Professor of Animal Behaviour and Cognition at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India, and Honorary Research Fellow at the College of Humanities in Exeter University, UK.

• AcknowledgementsList of contributorsList of imagesIntroductionCathy Turner, Jerri Daboo, Sharada Srinivasan, and Anindya Sinha1 The spaces of everyday performanceNarendar PaniPhoto essay 1: Maha Shivaratri, 2018: a journey through BengaluruCathy Turner and Anne Fenk with photography by Siddarth SumitranPart one: heritageIntroduction: heritageCathy Turner, Jerri Daboo, Sharada Srinivasan, and Anindya Sinha2 Crossing thresholds: transgressing space, identity and performance in the Urur-Olcott Kuppam Vizha in ChennaiJerri Daboo3 Performing craft, crafting performance: from the tangible to intangible in craft and performance heritageSharada Srinivasan4 Staging the temple as a living experience of a distant pastSmriti HaricharanPhoto essay 2: Heritage performances at TripunithuraCathy TurnerPart two: everyday lifeIntroduction: everyday lifeCathy Turner, Jerri Daboo, Sharada Srinivasan, and Anindya Sinha5 The production of locality at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2016)Cathy Turner6 Spectacle and subversion at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018)Cathy Turner7 Performing the digital city: flash mob performance and social exclusion in Bengaluru’s ‘new’ IndiaRebecca Savory FullerPhoto essay 3: fermented frontier: between north and southLawai BemBemPart three: environmentIntroduction: environmentCathy Turner, Jerri Daboo, Sharada Srinivasan, and Anindya Sinha8 Musings from the Vrishchikotsavam of Tripunithura: the uncertain future of the performing temple elephants of KeralaSreedhar Vijayakrishnan and Anindya Sinha9 Primate performances in a contact zone: interspecies communication and benefaction in a synurbising forest of Southern IndiaSarada Natarajan and Anindya Sinha10 Performing the Poromboke at the Urur-Olcott Kuppam Vizha, ChennaiSharada Srinivasan and Cathy TurnerPhoto essay 4: on the threshold of Urur KuppamCathy TurnerIndex