Karin Shankar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin Shankar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin |
| FAMILY NAME | Shankar |
| SIGNATURE | SHANKAR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pratt Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Another Delicious Story
Another Delicious Story consists of photography and video taken by my preschool-aged child with text and narration by myself, his mother. This video essay contemplates such questions as “How does a four-year-old frame photographs?” “What is a ‘punctum’ to a four-year-old?” and finally, “What stories do a mother and child tell each other?” I compose alongside the children’s book A Delicious Story by Barney Saltzberg, which consists of an absent or…
‘Every Relation is a Manipulation of Breath’: Outside-in embodied practice at the Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research in Puducherry, India
Based near the city of Puducherry, India, Adishakti is a performance collective and theatre research and repertory company producing some of the most vital experimental theatre in the country. Adishakti’s founder, Veenapani Chawla (1947–2014), sought a methodology in which the knowledge and manipulation of breath patterns would serve as a foundational tool for performance ‘energy’. In her explorations, Chawla drew on multiple traditional Indian p…
Indentured archives and speculative futures in Singapore: A conversation with artist Priyageetha Dia
Priyageetha Dia is a Singapore-based transdisciplinary artist whose work brings together South-East Asian plantation histories, postcolonial memory, migration politics, and extractivism as it relates to both labour and data. The conversation focuses on submerged and speculative archives of indentureship in Dia’s work. Dia describes how specific strategies, such as layering archival images, embodying diasporic Tamil ritual, as well as incorporatin…
Introduction: The Stuff of Teaching
The Studio in the Seminar: Performing Theory in an MFA Classroom
This article describes an "Introduction to Performance Theory" course that the authors co-teach to MFA students at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Through the semester, we track genealogies of performance studies, highlighting the ways in which our interdiscipline has been incorporated as an academic field while still remaining sensationally unsettled in its interventions, methods, and objects of analysis. The focus of this article is on t…
Learning Khayal: Notes on Being-with
This essay is a poetic reflection on how the history and practice of Khayal, an improvisatory North Indian vocal form, provides lessons on being-with an Other. This submission is a form of ficto-critique and is based on the author's musical practice, revived via online lessons during the pandemic
Tracing minor gesture in Maya Krishna Rao's kathakali-influenced performance
New Delhi-based performer, Maya Krishna Rao’s experimental performances incorporate a variety of forms including kathakali, cabaret, comedy, drag, live music, and video, and draw attention to the performative, political, and ethical potential of gesture. This article traces Rao’s practice as a minor inhabitation of kathakali and everyday gesture. Following performance theorist Erin Manning (2016), I understand the “minor” to be a force that scram…
Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared
December 01 2018 Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared. By Trinh T.Minh-ha. Fordham University Press, 2016; 298 pp.; illustrations. $100.00 cloth, $28.00 paper, e-book available. Karin Shankar Karin Shankar Karin Shankar is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Humanities and Media at Pratt Institute. Prior to her current position, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Global Postdoctoral…
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Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared
December 01 2018 Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared. By Trinh T.Minh-ha. Fordham University Press, 2016; 298 pp.; illustrations. $100.00 cloth, $28.00 paper, e-book available. Karin Shankar Karin Shankar Karin Shankar is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Humanities and Media at Pratt Institute. Prior to her current position, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Global Postdoctoral…
Tracing minor gesture in Maya Krishna Rao's kathakali-influenced performance
New Delhi-based performer, Maya Krishna Rao’s experimental performances incorporate a variety of forms including kathakali, cabaret, comedy, drag, live music, and video, and draw attention to the performative, political, and ethical potential of gesture. This article traces Rao’s practice as a minor inhabitation of kathakali and everyday gesture. Following performance theorist Erin Manning (2016), I understand the “minor” to be a force that scram…
Learning Khayal: Notes on Being-with
This essay is a poetic reflection on how the history and practice of Khayal, an improvisatory North Indian vocal form, provides lessons on being-with an Other. This submission is a form of ficto-critique and is based on the author's musical practice, revived via online lessons during the pandemic
Introduction: The Stuff of Teaching
The Studio in the Seminar: Performing Theory in an MFA Classroom
This article describes an "Introduction to Performance Theory" course that the authors co-teach to MFA students at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Through the semester, we track genealogies of performance studies, highlighting the ways in which our interdiscipline has been incorporated as an academic field while still remaining sensationally unsettled in its interventions, methods, and objects of analysis. The focus of this article is on t…
‘Every Relation is a Manipulation of Breath’: Outside-in embodied practice at the Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research in Puducherry, India
Based near the city of Puducherry, India, Adishakti is a performance collective and theatre research and repertory company producing some of the most vital experimental theatre in the country. Adishakti’s founder, Veenapani Chawla (1947–2014), sought a methodology in which the knowledge and manipulation of breath patterns would serve as a foundational tool for performance ‘energy’. In her explorations, Chawla drew on multiple traditional Indian p…
Indentured archives and speculative futures in Singapore: A conversation with artist Priyageetha Dia
Priyageetha Dia is a Singapore-based transdisciplinary artist whose work brings together South-East Asian plantation histories, postcolonial memory, migration politics, and extractivism as it relates to both labour and data. The conversation focuses on submerged and speculative archives of indentureship in Dia’s work. Dia describes how specific strategies, such as layering archival images, embodying diasporic Tamil ritual, as well as incorporatin…
Another Delicious Story
Another Delicious Story consists of photography and video taken by my preschool-aged child with text and narration by myself, his mother. This video essay contemplates such questions as “How does a four-year-old frame photographs?” “What is a ‘punctum’ to a four-year-old?” and finally, “What stories do a mother and child tell each other?” I compose alongside the children’s book A Delicious Story by Barney Saltzberg, which consists of an absent or…
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