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Basavanagudi Live Art Project (Reliving
Past, Present and Future) is an Artist
Initiative by Dimple B Shah funded by
India Foundation for Arts through
Project 560. The event will be from
April 24th to June 8, 2014.

Basavanagudi is one of the oldest dwellings in the
city and has many Temples, Religious Places and
Oldest Educational Institutions that has rich
'Forgotten Faces Reliving Past' history. People from this place has major
th
(Basavanagudi Live Art Project performed at footpath next to Ramakrishna Math 24 April 2014) contribution in the field of theater, Literature and
We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and Cultural Development of the City. The very well-
the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket…We should let nobody tell us that they know all known Lankesh Patrike is also based here and also
that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us. -Eamon Duffy, notable theater personalities have grown up here.
"Faith of our Fathers The Bull Temple, Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple,
The first performance for my Basavangudi Project was 'Forgotten Faces Reliving Past’ this Ramanjaneya Gudda / Temple, Ramakrishna
performance was about forgotten face/Looking back into important era a period, the development
of this area from days of it origin, The foundation laid down by great personalities, remembering Ashram, Shankar Math and The Flower Market in
their contribution for development of this area and overall society and looking at transition Gandhi Bazaar all these places have great
changes happened over decades and look at present the present issue connecting past and relevance in the City Map and also played
present. important role. There are many Educational
Since it was first Intervention for this area I wanted to flip into past to present and introduce my Institution both in Engineering and Art Field that
audience with cultural and heritage aspect of one of oldest area of Bangalore. In this performance have great contributions to this area. Over the
I dealt with historical aspect of this area, people and issues of senior citizens. In this performance years despite many people migrating here from
my attempt was not only through my performance introduce the images of famous personalities of different places and part of city it has not lost its
the area but also wanted senior citizen to come out and share their bit of past with us who were charm though the new flyover and construction of
witness. This was done by myself performing with costume of olden time Jubba, Panche and new metro line is redefining its beauty. Even
Mysore Peta with my face was covered with black cloth metaphorically to represent the forgotten
personalities and their contributions. I was also carrying in my hand custom made umbrella with today we meet lot of people living in old buildings
images of famous personalities which metaphorical represented that we are under their shades that has history of 70, 80 years, and still exists
and also I circulated one post card with above quotation to audiences and during the representing the good old days and charm of that
performance I interacted with audience questioning whose image it was and circulated Xerox era. The project is basically to do intervention in
copy of photos of famous personalities with their names on it which audiences were suppose to form of performances in this area on streets of
take with them and dig into the history about them In process to my surprise one senior citizen Basavanagudi. This Project is intent to build
came out with enthusiasm and share his experience and story of his time and also sang and intervention in Public Space and create more
narrated shloka. This performance was attempt to reach varied kind of audience from college space for Performances Art.
students to general public like auto driver to women and senior citizens.