The Art of Lawlessness – Prologue (original) (raw)

Criminals' Performing for Change: Budhan Theatre´s fight against injustice and police atrocity

2016

This article is about the Budhan Theatre, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India and known for using Street Theatre as a medium to bring about social change. Budhan’s street theatre is a new kind of theatre which brings individuals from the stigmatized community to the stage and aims to raise consciousness and demand social acceptance for them in the process. The article examines Budhan Theatre as a movement that brings about socio-political change in India and discusses its performances and their implications in light of performance studies. The discussion presented here is based on my observations, interviews with members of Budhan theatre, and print media coverage. I have been connected to Budhan theatre for the past five years through conducting this research, facilitating some of the children's workshops, talking to Chhara community members, and observing the group and their activities closely. The strategy of Budhan Theatre, which underlies each of its plays, is to highlight...

The art of law

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Performing Law, Performing the City

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021) McGill GLSA Research Series: The City: An Object or a Subject of Law? , 2021

My recent ethical challenge has been to bring together my academic and my artistic practices. I am a legal academic, as well as a practicing artist. And while law has often been part of what I do as an artist, bringing my art practice into law has been harder. For this chapter, I reflect on the theory of the lawscape, namely the tautology of law and urban space, as well as on atmospherics and spatial justice, through a performance lecture I gave online on the issue of Law and the City.