gestalt

Punjabi-British performance poet remixes the Tate's Panchayat archives

gestalt is a poetic enquiry of the Panchayat, a collective of South Asian and Black artists/practitioners involved in communal archiving, artmaking and activism in Britain from 1988-2015.

gestalt is a poetic enquiry of the Panchayat, a collective of South Asian and Black artists/practitioners involved in communal archiving, artmaking and activism in Britain from 1988-2015. gestalt consists of visual poetry, drawings and instructions which provide an alternative documentation of the materials and ephemera from the Panchayat Collection. It is a score for performance holding a spotlight on questions of race, class, gender, colonisation, erasure and collective memory.