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Shahar in the Khaki Room
A Performance by Rumi Harish
Artist
The project involves mapping Bangalore police stations and recounting crisis interventions with marginalized sexualities, genders, and sex workers. Around 8 to 10 police stations will be chosen to mark personal experiences.
The narration, presented by a transgender queer person, will intermix voices and gender expressions. The stories span from 1999 to 2018, documenting gender negotiations, dysphoria, and struggles with asserting gender. The geography of Bangalore has been significant in crisis intervention for trans individuals. Paintings of police stations will visually represent the spaces inspired by installation art. The performance will also explore Bangalore’s dual nature of acceptance and rejection.
This event is presented by Rumi Harish and Maraa.
The project is supported by Project 560, India Foundation of the Arts
Artist
Rumi Harish
Rumi Harish is a queer trans man. He has been working in the field of social justice and human rights of various marginalised communities like contract based sanitation workers union, transgenders, queers and sex workers for the last 22 years. He started learning Hindustani classical music at the age of 8 and learnt under 6 Gurus all over India like Late Pandit Ramarao Naik, Pandit Yeshwant Bua Joshi, Pandit Dattatreya Garud, Pandit Indhudhar Nirody, Panditha Aditi Upadhya and Pandith Sudhindra Bahowmick. He is now going through his voice transition and is trying out a new way of singing and use of voice. He has written 3 plays called Sanchari, Liberty Begum and A Journey A to E, and is a regular columnist in EEdina .com. He had focussed on crisis intervention and worked with Sunil Mohan for 18 years. Along with Sunil Mohan he has written articles and reports with Sunil Mohan. Presently he is focusing to develop the regional cultural aspects of queer and trans communities.
