Shadow Circus: A Personal Archive of Tibetan Resistance to be presented at JNU

New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) White Crane Films and School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University will present Shadow Circus: A Personal Archive of Tibetan Resistance (1957–1974), a long-term project by filmmakers and artists Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam.

The exhibition will open on February 15.After showings at Savvy Contemporary Berlin as part of the 2019 Berlinale Forum Expanded, 2022 Kochi Biennale; Experimenter-Colaba, Mumbai; and the Tibet Museum, Dharamshala; the exhibition is now opening at the School of Art & Aesthetics (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), on February 15.It will feature several other works by the artist-filmmakers, along with discussions and interactions.Post the Chinese invasion of 1950 and its subsequent takeover in 1959, Tibet has been a country under occupation.Since then, resistance to Chinese rule, both inside Tibet and in exile, has been unyielding and resilient, transforming over time in response to the changing situation in China and the shifting winds of geopolitical alignments. But little is still known of the guerrilla war that was fought from the mid-1950s to 1974 when thousands of Tibetans took up arms against the invading forces of China.In the early 1990s, filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam started to research the story of Tibet’s armed struggle, a movement that became entangled in global geo