Kappiri Deity, Vypin African memoryscapes in Kerala are preserved through alternative processes of cultural conservation including rituals and beliefs directed towards Kappiri, a spirit who personifies local collective histories. In [ … ]
Category: Kerala
Worshiping African Spirits
African memoryscapes in Kerala are preserved through alternative processes of cultural conservation including rituals and beliefs directed towards Kappiri, a spirit who personifies local collective histories. In coastal Kerala one [ … ]
Literature
Even before filmmakers and visual artists in the state of Kerala started addressing about African presence in colonial Cochin (Kochi), local writers were weaving Africans into the plots of [ … ]
Kappiri Spirits Installation
Contemporary artists participating in the third edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016-17 made reference to memoryscapes of Fort Kochi to revisit colonial histories, even as they excavated unknown accounts of the [ … ]
Kerala
Although an eastern African diaspora can be traced in other parts of India such as Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Karnataka, where there was relatively low cultural assimilation through marriages, it is [ … ]
“Kochi Tower” Installation by Rigo 23
San Francisco based, Portuguese artist Ricardo Goureia, known by his artist’s name Rigo 23, creates works that excavate unknown or less-known histories of Fort Kochi. Each individual work in Rigo [ … ]
Public Sculptures of Kappiri
Hochimin Palamootil Hanifa’s granite sculpture of Kappiri is twelve feet in height. The artist refers to the lives of Africans and their sufferings through this work of abstract expressionism. Commissioned [ … ]