Postmortem: Terror and Performance ⎪ 6 June, 5pm ⎪ Goldsmiths College, Small Cinema – RHB 185 ⎪ Introduced by Andrea Phillips ⎪ Followed by a reception to launch Terror and Performance by Rustom Bharucha (Routledge, May 2014).
Performing ‘Asia’: The Affective Affinities of Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin ⎪7 June, 3pm – 5pm ⎪Iniva, 1 Rivington Place ⎪ Introduced by Grant Watson ⎪ £7 (£5 concessions)
Performance theorist Rustom Bharucha delivers a lecture on his unique research into the friendship between the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore and Japanese curator Okakura Tenshin. This talk is part of research project Tagore, Pedagogy and Contemporary Visual Cultures, a partnership between Iniva and Goldsmiths, University of London, which looks at Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore’s legacy in relation to cultural translation, curatorship, education, and historical precedent.