Manufacturing manufactureAborigines, jungle-terry, hill people and the many many...

ABSTRACT:

Fig. 1 Open Shoes, Van Gogh, 1886.

Fig. 2 Santhal Family, Ramkinkar Baij, 1938.

In the age of technicity, how does one approach a pair of open, borrowed, worn out shoes? Is there a transvaluation of esthetics, with nature (technologically dominated) becoming/as the site and means of production? One interesting manner, to look at these shoes, is by trying to place them in the feet of Baij‘s Santhal Family – a subject of unbelonging, dislocation and perhaps (colonial) spectacle. As Frank Perlin reminds us, there are limitations in a Descartian interpretation of things empirical. Thus then, rather than getting involved in a ‘description’ of these two juxtaposed figures – I simply leave them as an abstract. Using the same abstract- as a window perhaps - this paper tries to approach the tribal question.

Author: Tushar Srivastava

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