The Alternative Law Forum invites you for
A Performance
I’m Not Sure How To Tell You from The Archive of K.Kalpana
Rashmi Munikempanna

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A discussion on the salient features of the Mental Health Care Act, 2017
Shruti Ravi
Date: 18th January 2019
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: Alternative Law Forum , 122/4, Infantry Road, Shivajinagar, Bengaluru 560001 | 08022868757 | 08022865757 | 9880595032

About the performance: I’m Not Sure How To Tell You is a performance of excerpts (spoken word/photography) from The Archive of K.Kalpana an ongoing archival project by Rashmi Munikempanna. The archive includes photography, poetry, sound, video and digital art that documents a year in the life of K.Kalpana as she explores what it means to be diagnosed with a mental illness.The archive is constructed as a way of politicising illness by addressing structural causes while dismantling the disciplining by the psychiatric hospital of the gendered queer body marked by class and caste. It is constructed as being in conversation with the Mental Healthcare Act 2017. The archive can be accessed here: https://kkalpana.home.blog/

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