Performance One
Acephele
In this performance (image no. I, ii, iii, iv) I try to trace religious and communal oppression on a body. Here I used Traditional religious materials (sandalwood pedestal) and surgical materials (bandage, blood) to create a performative and interactive space. When those materials interact with the body during the performance, it creates a fierce and paradoxical dialogue. Witch counters Brahmanical patriarchy and hegemonic rituals. Interacting with viewers, some particular parts of this performative space itself produce resistance and paradoxically exposed growing communal violence around the nation. A body always carried its own wounds of suffering from oppression and humiliation by capitalist reality, Brahmanical patriarchy, Islamophobia, and patriarchal repression. Simultaneously the body itself resists and tries to find its own identity. Sometimes it's may not be fulfilled. As a visual art practitioner, I'm trying to raise that kind of contractionary discourse by creating a ‘headless’ body on two-dimensional and three-dimensional surfaces. Starting with exploring my past experience I started my practice with figurative forms on two and three-dimensional surfaces Sometimes with semi-sculptural forms.I studied and revisit subaltern struggle from my own past experiences of violence, regional hegemony around my native fieldwork area. With using a post-structural framework, I try to understand more deeply about that heterogeneous group of people, those who are not able to acknowledge their present exploitation. By collectively archiving oral evidence from various subaltern (Gramscian sense) groups of people I'm trying to archive their short narratives, those expose alienation, precariousness, agitation, resistance against the state agendas.
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