ABSTRACT

This article investigates the impact of arts-based therapies on incarcerated individuals within the Presidency Correctional Home in Kolkata with specific reference to Alokananda Roy’s project ‘Culture Therapy’. This programme for the rehabilitation of incarcerated individuals through the arts is arguably the first of its kind in the Indian context. By employing personal observations, non-structured interviews and performance reviews, this article provides a close reading of Roy’s experimental methodologies and highlights how public performances involving prisoners help to humanise participants and deconstruct mutually exclusive notions of civic and criminal spaces.

摘要

本文特别参考了 Alokananda Roy 的“文化疗法”项目，研究了基于艺术的疗法对加尔各答总统惩教所内被监禁者的影响。这个通过艺术使被监禁者康复的计划可以说是印度环境中的第一个此类计划。本文通过个人观察、非结构化访谈和绩效评估，对罗伊的实验方法进行了仔细阅读，并强调了涉及囚犯的公开表演如何有助于使参与者人性化并解构相互排斥的公民空间和犯罪空间的概念。