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SPRC In conversation with Rahul Rao: Statues, idols and why we love the idea of an animate object

SPRC In conversation with Rahul Rao: Statues, idols and why we love the idea of an animate object

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A conversation about Rahul Rao’s book, ‘The Psychic Lives of Statues’. The conversation considers the agitation caused by attempts to remove celebratory statues of figures involved in the violence of the Atlantic Slave trade or of colonialism. Are statues made into ‘idols’ by people who want to defend these histories? How should we understand the sudden ‘coming alive’ of these previously forgotten and unnoticed representations of the human form? What can we learn from the distinctive erection of statues by corporate or state projects in our time and should we view these recent attempts to mark and control space through statues as a continuation of the spatial and representation tactics of European colonialism?


The conversation was recorded in July 2025.


Speakers: Gargi Bhattacharyya and Rahul Rao.

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