{"uid":"nSHO1MqHMNt3kd9q","type":"artist","tags":["performance"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Penal Illustrations","summary":"Penal Illustrations performance is articulated around research on the Indian Penal Code of 1862, created as a way of consolidating local Sanskrit (Dharma\u015b\u0101stra), Arabic (Al\u2019Hidaya), and British law systems into one code, through a thirty year long commission chaired by Lord Macaulay. This code uniquely contains a series of textual \u2018illustrations\u2019 which describe the penal codes through abstract representations of legal and illegal acts. In Penal Illustrations three performers are each given two words derived from the Indian Penal Code that, failing to remain on the level of abstraction, let the local contexts emerge in the simulations of the performance. The format of an improvised performance enacts everyday life scenarios that create infinite short circuit situations that might have existed or still exist within our post colonial times.\nThe gesture of scratching the soil is here used as an overarching metaphor, the same that Mahatma Gandhi used to describe the destructive approach of the British administrators towards the traditional Indian education system: \u201cThey scratched the soil and began to look at the root, and left the root like that, and the beautiful tree perished\u201d. The exhibition aims to reiterate the act of scratching the soil in different contexts and formats, in order to unveil a common ground made of superimpositions of models and structures over the fields of law and education, and eventually over a whole post-colonial social body.","space":"A space with the following requirements:\n+ Space for audience to sit around the performers with a change in level.\n+ If the space is large, sound amplification is required\n> Performers are to come from the local community, likely theatre of improvisational performers.\n+There is the possibility to train community members without performance skills to partake (which gives other interesting possibilities) but this would require a training time of 1-2months.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":1,"names":"Eduardo","surname":"Cachucho","email":"e.cachucho@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"A04214289","address":"19 Banbury Road, Westdene","city":"Johannesburg","nacionality":"South Africa","country_id":"248","birthdate":"1985-02-21T22:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1985-02-21T22:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+27659652083","web":"@ecachucho - current website hacked eduardocachucho.com"}