Avadhāna: Between Art of Attentiveness and Ritual of Memory

The Indian performative art of Avadhāna (attention, attentiveness) is based on the showcasing of the mastery of memory, creativity, retention, multitasking and task-switching as well as other cognitive abilities. It examines not only a person’s capacity to focus and respond simultaneously to multip...

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Autor principal:	Hermina Cielas
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2017
Materias:	performing arts Avadhāna nāṭyāvadhāna literary games citrakāvya visual poetry Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c1b32b805f5343fe8f1f4b9f3583d0b42021-11-27T12:54:31ZAvadhāna: Between Art of Attentiveness and Ritual of Memory10.12797/CIS.19.2017.01.031732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/c1b32b805f5343fe8f1f4b9f3583d0b42017-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/72https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 The Indian performative art of Avadhāna (attention, attentiveness) is based on the showcasing of the mastery of memory, creativity, retention, multitasking and task-switching as well as other cognitive abilities. It examines not only a person’s capacity to focus and respond simultaneously to multiple task demands given by questioners (pṛcchakas) and demonstrate outstanding memory skills, but also specialized knowledge. The Avadhāna event, which involves partial improvisation, takes the form of an entertaining spectacle based on the set of rules assigned to its particular type. It becomes the ‘ritual of memory’, the celebration of innate and developed mental techniques performed by the avadhāni in front of an audience. The present paper aims at presenting the centuries-old tradition of Avadhāna from the point of view of its relation to ritual and other performative arts, as well as its performers and its contemporary components, such as the inclusion of painting, stage drama or elements of visual poetry. It stems from a field study conducted in 2015–2016 in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and from interviews with practitioners of the art of attention, Dr. R. Ganesh, Dr. Shankar Rajaraman and Dr. Medasani Mohan. Hermina CielasKsiegarnia Akademicka Publishingarticleperforming artsAvadhānanāṭyāvadhānaliterary gamescitrakāvyavisual poetryIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 19, Iss 1 (2017)
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spellingShingle	performing arts Avadhāna nāṭyāvadhāna literary games citrakāvya visual poetry Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Hermina Cielas Avadhāna: Between Art of Attentiveness and Ritual of Memory
description	The Indian performative art of Avadhāna (attention, attentiveness) is based on the showcasing of the mastery of memory, creativity, retention, multitasking and task-switching as well as other cognitive abilities. It examines not only a person’s capacity to focus and respond simultaneously to multiple task demands given by questioners (pṛcchakas) and demonstrate outstanding memory skills, but also specialized knowledge. The Avadhāna event, which involves partial improvisation, takes the form of an entertaining spectacle based on the set of rules assigned to its particular type. It becomes the ‘ritual of memory’, the celebration of innate and developed mental techniques performed by the avadhāni in front of an audience. The present paper aims at presenting the centuries-old tradition of Avadhāna from the point of view of its relation to ritual and other performative arts, as well as its performers and its contemporary components, such as the inclusion of painting, stage drama or elements of visual poetry. It stems from a field study conducted in 2015–2016 in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and from interviews with practitioners of the art of attention, Dr. R. Ganesh, Dr. Shankar Rajaraman and Dr. Medasani Mohan.
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Avadhāna: Between Art of Attentiveness and Ritual of Memory

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