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Forest Tales: Experiments in Narratech /

Vaidya, Anuj,

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Forest Tales: Experiments in Narratech /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Forest Tales: Experiments in Narratech // Anuj Vaidya.
Author:	Vaidya, Anuj,
Description:	1 electronic resource (373 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-08, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-08B.
Subject:	Performing arts. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31764155
ISBN:	9798304967006

Forest Tales: Experiments in Narratech /
Vaidya, Anuj,

Forest Tales: Experiments in Narratech /Anuj Vaidya. - 1 electronic resource (373 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-08, Section: B.

Forest Tales: Experiments in Narratech, elaborates the process of producing a femi-queer eco-cinema retelling of the South Asian epic Ramayana as a Sitayana. Both cinema and the Ramayana are world-building technologies that have been integral to different iterations of empire and accumulation through time. In their major strain, both traditions tell stories of human exceptionalism; in their minor strains, they both have the potential to spark our revolutionary imaginations. Speaking with Sita - daughter of the earth - has long been a mode of speaking truth to power from the position of marginalized communities. Following this method, Sita emerges as forest in my project, and it is through their voice that we make sense of this tradition. In another prong of the project, the vulture Jatayu - an important figure in the Ramayana epic, who gives his life for Sita - is resurrected with a prosthetic wing, only to face the extinction of his kind in the present.The dissertation includes three section: the first (chapters one and two) offers an in-depth introduction to the two foundational themes of Forest Tales - the Ramayana and cinema; the second engages my interest in the larval (which emerges from my distributed intelligence with artist/scholar Praba Pilar) as an experimental method for making performance, and as a theoretical and ethical position that grounds these experiments; the final section brings my practice into the present through my ethnographic fieldwork with forest communities in the city of Mumbai. Between the five-chapters that comprise these sections are three photo essays that engage my practice more directly: 1. Forest Tales: A Larval Cinema, offers a survey of the various iterations and incarnations of the embodied eco-cinema experiments at the heart of this dissertation; 2. Mother Nurture documents a bio-social sculpture project created in collaboration with the Hypha Collective, and 3. Bombay Futures captures the latent and contested visions for Bombay's estuarine ecologies through a podcast series.In the end, this dissertation approaches stories not merely as narratives but as narratech: both shaped by the technologies of storytelling (which have their own latent narratives), and simultaneously technologies that shape the world. This method of inquiry demands that we not only re-story our pasts/presents/futures, but also remediate the technologies that we use to narrate and make sense of them, for contemporary media technologies (digital and otherwise) are deeply embedded in capitalism's 'hydrocarbon imagination' (Bozak 2012).

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ISBN: 9798304967006Subjects--Topical Terms:

523119
Performing arts.
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