Archiving like a Feminist
Hearing Herstories, Singing Sisterhood – Performing the Feminist Archive
Shruthi Vishwanath
 
Followed by a conversation with Tejaswini Niranjana
 
4:30 PM. Fri, May 23, 2025
Dasheri Auditorium, NCBS
 
The concert, Hearing Herstories, Singing Sisterhood - Performing the Feminist Archive, is a public event that is part of 'Archiving like a Feminist', a workshop organised by the Archives at NCBS and the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP). In this concert, Shruthi Veena Vishwanath retrieves songs of women bhakti poets and brings them alive for our contemporary times. The concert will be followed by a conversation between Shruthi Vishwanath and Tejaswini Niranjana.
 
Bio:
Singer, composer, and educator specialising in Nirguni, Bhakti and Sufi Music, Shruthi Veena Vishwanath's work celebrates the intersections of her classical training and the visceral nature of folk forms. She sings a vast repertoire of mystic music from the Indian subcontinent. She researches, composes, and sings poems of women and other marginalised voices. Her work has taken her all over India and to seven countries overseas. She also teaches and designs curriculum in music and the allied arts. (Bio from: http://www.shruthivishwanath.com/)
 
Tejaswini Niranjana is Director, Centre for Asian Studies, GITAM University, India, and Adjunct Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Her books include Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad (2006), and Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious (2020), both published by Duke University Press. Recently, she edited Music, Modernity and Publicness in India (Oxford UP, 2020). She is the co-producer of three documentary films related to music, and the curator of Saath-Saath, the India-China music collaboration project (http://saathsaathmusic.com). Her book, Siting Translation: History, Post-structuralism and the Colonial Context (University of California Press, 1992), has impacted a wide range of fields from anthropology and history to post-colonial studies. (Bio from: https://www.gitam.edu/faculty/tejaswini-niranjana)
 
Is this a Public Event?: Yes