We’re very excited to announce that our exhibition on the Tibetan resistance, SHADOW CIRCUS, will show at the India International Centre from 20 April to 1 May.
For many years, we have been researching the little-known story of Tibet’s armed resistance against the Chinese occupation, inspired in great part by Tenzing’s late father, Lhamo Tsering, who was one of the leaders of the resistance and the key liaison between it and the CIA, which supported it for many years. Serving as Chief of Operations, he oversaw the activities of the resistance and at the same time, maintained an incredibly detailed archive of photographs, documents, letters and maps. The exhibition re-evaluates the audiovisual material that we have gathered over the years, including Lhamo Tsering’s personal archives, and presents a re-edited version of our 1998 documentary – The Shadow Circus: The CIA in Tibet – to create a more complete and complex mosaic of this still largely obscure story.
The inaugural version of SHADOW CIRCUS was curated by Natasha Ginwala and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung with assistant curator Krisztina Hunya. It was co-produced by and exhibited at SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin from 7 February to 10 March 2019, within the programme of the 14th Forum Expanded, 69th Berlinale.
This is the first time SHADOW CIRCUS is on view in India, and is organised by India International Centre in collaboration with White Crane Films, and with support from the International Campaign for Tibet.
