India.
Performance art in India thus comes with a context that is different to that of, say, performance art on the Lower East Side in the 1970s: one where the performative space is long-established within Indian culture, so that seeing a shaman shamble along a walkway or around a subway station (the location for Rahal’s subsequent performance Bhramana II, 2012) might not be a particularly extraordinary sight to passersby inured to everyday rituals. Indeed a significant amount of Indian performance art foregrounds this.
Niru Ratham – art review(excerpt)
Artist and Performance Art Group Names
- Ayyakann
- Ehtisham Azhar
- Satadru Sovan Banduri
- Imdad Barbhuyan
- Aseng Borang
- The Cabbage Walker
- Zuleikha Chaudhuri
- Soumyabrata Choudhury
- Nikhil Chopra
- Hardev Singh Dev
- Manmeet Devgun
- Anita Dube
- Shilpa Gupta
- Subodh Gupta
- Tushar Joag
- Ratnabali Kant
- Anish Kapoor
- Sonia Khurana
- Miriam Laplante
- Shantanu Lodh
- Piyali Ghosh
- Sheela Gowda
- Subodh Gupta
- Rummana Hussain
- Suresh Kumar
- Shantanu-Manmeet
- Monali Meher
- Prashant More
- Pushpamala N
- Mamta Sagar
- Samudra Kajal Saikia
- Inder Salim
- Mithu Sen
- Dimple Bhupatrai Shah
- Tejal Shah
- Gulammohammed Sheikh
- Kulpreet Singh
- Himali Singh Soin
- B.Ajay Sharma
- Sahej Rahal
- Vandana
- WALA collective
Information, books, resources, and more
- Art as a Weapon of Resistance in Kashmir
- Performance Art in India
- The rise of the performance art
- Indian Women’s Performance Art
- Propositions for an Archive of Performance Art in India
- How performance art is breaking new ground in India
- Khoj
- Put Together, It Becomes a Whole: Performance Artists You Should Know
- 10 Indian Artists Who Are Shaping Contemporary Art
