Discourse, Music, Performance…The Plantation Way.

Enclosed is a message to ‘Aside’ , an interdisciplinary research group working out of MS University, Baroda.

Dear All,

As some of you may know, a few friends and I have started a working group called ‘The Plantation’ in order to explore interdisciplinary research in the arts, psychology, dance and performance, art history and music( along the lines of ethnomusicology).We held an event called ‘Mile Sur Mera Tumhara’ which brought together a plethora of diverse musical and performing arts traditions late last year at Kamati Bagh in collabration with MSU to commemorate Baroda Day.

‘The Plantation’ is an assortment of scholars, practitioners,artists and musicians and has been an open group where people have been walking in and out.We have an interesting history and I write this on behalf of the group in order to invite your assistance as well as involvement.

We came together because we felt a need to speak progressive secular politics in our practice and at Baroda where we have all seen and felt insecure about our political positions given the climate of fear and communal disharmony.

As of today we have a collective resource of books, a computer(everything we need to start a revolution), and we started working out of Angshuman Phukan’s apartment in Nizampura last year.And as things go with people who are at the start of their career, we tended to diverge and pursue our livelihoods.As a group now we are at a loss of a space and young blood to join us as well as think with us.We need new recruits, because given the conditions of all our lives, we need a collective intelligence as well as space in Baroda where we can operate from.

Any suggestions?