Art in conflict zones: Nicky Chandam’s visual documentation of Manipur and the politics of performance
By the time Nicky Chandam set-up her first camera at a folk performance in Delhi’s Nehru Park around 2010, she wasn’t thinking about exhibitions. She was simply watching. A self-described introvert, who grew up in Imphal’s valley, Nicky found performance art both terrifying yet beckoning — like the waves on a beach, she says. “You…