gestalt Alexis Levitin Encyclopaedic knowledge is rarely the

Encyclopaedic knowledge is rarely the point of the essay

We reach the depths of Hell but Paradise can be just round the corner ('Let them paint a boat

together with a strong and resilient community spirit all played their parts

Fried creates a world of Babylonian flow-charts

The storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle

gestalt Alexis Levitin Encyclopaedic knowledge is rarely thegestalt is a poetic enquiry of the Panchayat, a collective of South Asian and Black artists practitioners involved in communal archiving, artmaking and activism in Britain from 1988 2015. gestalt consists of visual poetry, drawings and instructions which provide an alternative documentation of the materials and ephemera from the Panchayat Collection. It is a score for performance holding a spotlight on questions of race, class, gender, colonisation,