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Stream interview with Rustom Bharucha
Eugene van Erven (Community Art Lab) interviewed leading intercultural theorist and dramaturge Rhustom Bharucha (Kalkotta, India). During the webcast, Bharucha commented on recent Dutch community performance projects. You can watch the webstream in our archive.
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Between Past and Future: Re-imagining ‘our times’ in theatre today
In this presentation Rustom Bharucha reflects critically on the gap between past and future, he begins by asking a question - ‘where are we at this point of time?’ - posited at a juncture in time (the start of the ‘new millennium’), a moment of restructuring for Lift and a point of review and revaluation for himself. He evokes a journey with different paths taken, unpredictable and serendipitous; with divergence but also convergence.
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Rustom Bharucha
Rustom Bharucha is an independent writer, director and cultural critic based in Kolkata, India.
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What kind of community art research do we need?
Rustom Bharucha: “My overall suggestion would be to work against the grain of liberal thinking and modes of patronage. I sense a total erasure of the spirit of political dissidence in this ‘community art research’ project.”
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