From
my childhood I have beheld community conflicts, riots, and identity
controversies in the context of Assam. My memory is loaded with the visuals of
burning houses/ villages in the past. They have created a psychological tension
and fabricated a silent space in human psyche not only for that particular
community but also have extended the anxiety in the surroundings. I have tried
to depict that psychological violence and the silence in this performance. I
believe that when these kinds of conflicts happen, a space of illusion/delusion
is created in our psychology because every conflict is a product of political
manipulations that have happened in the past. I have related this narrative to
that of “Lanka Daahan” from the Ramayana metaphorically where Hanuman had burnt
the state of Lanka.
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| the constructed space, Campus of Gauhati University... // June 2015 |
For
this performance the space was created like the space where to the violence,
riots, community conflict constantly happening in Assam emerged from political
benefits. I think peoples like police, politicians, social activist, common
people (so called) are perform differently in the space where the riots or
violence or community conflict were happening. These kind of performing
gestures are use in my performance try to create the narrative in a visual
form. Though I am using a microphone and sound is not there. The sounds come in
to viewer psychological space and emerge many questions and provoke to rethink.
Indeed,
the anthropomorphic from is re-interpretation of a mythological character from
Hindu epic Ramayana which I feel a connection to all conflict. I burn myself
the tail and turned it off. Here I used a GAMUSHA (a traditional textile used for prestigious purposes in
Assam) to hide identity of the performer and also it is a type of satire.
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| Man and Tail, Venue : Gauhati University. Duration 25 minutes, June 2015 |
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