ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses three different examples of contemporary cultural and artistic productions, each of which deals in different ways with questions, problems and potentials of the plurality of cultural and social tradition, of tradition and change, of the local and the global and of the political potentials of artistic practice. All three case studies present different artistic practices, media and forms and come from various places in India. The first example, the Internet database Pad.ma, offers the opportunity of navigating and mapping, of finding a path within India's advanced critical contemporary art practices and alternative cultural productions. The second, Ninasam was founded in 1949 and started as a cultural exchange and amateur theatre amongst a group of inhabitants of the village Heggodu. Finally, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India's first art biennial that took place from 12 December to 13 March 2012/2013 in and around the harbour cities Kochi and Muziri in the South Indian state of Kerala.
