| ID | 144364 |
| Title Proper | Making Mumbai's emerging art world through makeshift practices |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Sooudi, Olga Kanzaki |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | India's art world has garnered significant attention as an ‘emerging art world’, but we know little about how such worlds emerge and are experienced by those working within them. This article explores this question of ‘emergence’ through an ethnography of the Mumbai art world. Gallerists, artists and other insiders generally perceive local conditions as insufficient and in-the-making. They juxtapose Mumbai against idealised, more established art worlds, and engage in creative, improvised ‘makeshift’ practices to remedy the limitations they see. Despite their provisional nature, these makeshift practices produce new spaces, networks and mediators in the Mumbai art world: in other words, art worlds emerge through practice. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 39, No.1; Mar 2016: p.149-166 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2016-03 39, 1 |
| Key Words | India ; Mumbai ; ART ; Practice ; Emergence ; Artists ; Improvisation ; Worlds ; Art Markets ; Scenes ; Galleries ; Emerging ; Makeshift |