“A lot of times when people talk about the caste system, they talk about it being one of the oldest systems of repression in the world …but I also like to talk about the fact that that means Dalit movements are one of the oldest resistance movements in the world.”  —Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a transmedia artist whose work focuses on the end of India's caste apartheid system. She will introduce the audience to the scope of this problem and how art is a key strategy in grappling with this system. The program will feature music, video, and transmedia examples of her socially engaged art. Come to learn. come to be inspired, and come to join the fight!

About the presenter

Thenmozhi Soundararajan identifies as a Dalit transmedia storyteller and technologist who “believes story is the most important unit of social change.” Her work has been recognized by the Producers Guild of America Diversity Program, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Chicken and Egg Foundation, the Anneberg Innovation Center, Slamdance, MIT Cender for New Media Studies, the Sorbonne, Source Magazine, the National Center for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angelas, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her work can be seen at her blog dalitnation.com.

Come to the performance-lecture on at 8 pm March 10, and to the workshop from 12:15-1:15 pm, March 11, in Conservatory Bibbins 237.