Performance Art in India as a Para disciplinary Practice: Problems in Documenting and Historicizing Contemporary Performance Art in India

Edited and abridged version of the public lecture delivered by Samudra Kajal Saikia, in JNU, Moderated by Sumangala Damodaran, on March 4, 2015, as a part of the Ila Dalmia FICA Research Grant, 2013, entitled as "The Persistence of Memory: Problems in Documenting and Historicizing Contemporary Performance Art in India". A project outcome of "Understanding Performance as Art and Beyond: Multiple Gaze".