Temjenzungba's story

Temjen Kechu is an arts facilitator from Nagaland absorbed in community-based participatory art and arts education.

Temjenzungba facilitates art pedagogy to offer cross-curriculum transactions for holistic and transformational learning. His practice relies on the values of art as a radical process to make meanings and create social dialogue. Temjen is visiting faculty for Drama and Art in Education at the Mokokchung College of Teacher Education and State College of Teacher Education in Nagaland. In addition Temjen devises theatre-making by exploring the contextual narratives and indigenous arts.

CWIT has enabled me to acquire pedagogical application of how theatre and arts can be integrated in education and community context. I have learned new vocabularies, skills and tools of art facilitation as a radical approach for constructive education and social transformation.  

Temjen studied Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London. He says that the course helped him to contextualise, critique and create his own art in schools, colleges and the community. Temjen has moved away from the traditional art approaches and discovered philosophical enquires and participatory process for intervening though art in different contexts. 

Temjen believes that diversity among students at Goldsmiths has been key in developing the skills of collaboration, political and cultural sensitivity. We undertake placement in recognised theatre organisations, where we work with experienced practitioners and facilitate dialogues on question of identity, representation, human right, aesthetics and the role of an artist.