Bleeding Foreheads
Performance Research January 2, 2023 C. Akhila Vimal 2 citations
Undertaking a study on the ritual-healing performances, namely Kodungallur Bharani and Chottanikkara Verpadu, of Keralam, this paper contextualizes blood as a ‘form’ and ‘content’ of the performances. Bleeding bodies of both these practices expose the complex spectacle of real blood and real body mutilation. In both these practices, the mutilated body in a deranged state of trance and...