(Berlin)
Ingrid Hora
The benno barth award has enabled me to investigate the topic of professional keen, especially Rudali, by professional wailing women in India. In the course of some trips and research stays in India, the topic has opened up in various facets and aspects. I could discover other types of keen – e.g. the wailing hermits at the foot of the Himalaya – and gradually the different stories intertwined…
A Portuguese house in Goa, hidden behind palm trees, has become the Institute of Sorrow (sadness), where the lamentation and sadness of people are kept. Especially commissioned women constantly keep the vessels with the complaints in motion and take care of them day in and out. Fiction and research merge…
Ingrid Hora
