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' Performance art is all about crossing the borders ,and the lines drawn around our society our bodies, and gestures.We need to erase the "lakshaman rekhas"of conformity,to explore divergent horizons of body,gender and sexuality in a context of a world where everything is appropriated except our bodies,which is the last bastion of resistance.'
-Suresh Jayaram-
{ Borders and lines: the temporality of landscape’. Borders and
lines while being different in their function are inseparable from each
other as visual metaphors and lived experiences. Borders, while
signifying the presence of a space it invokes the exactness of the
concept of line into its signification process. Borders are deeply
embedded in movements and dynamics of linearity, and spatiality. As such
the concepts of border and line are entwined with the temporality of
the landscape and by implication they become embodied concepts. }
{ Thinking in these lines – oscillating between the concepts of border,
line and landscape – the complex concept of landscape becomes the
‘world’ as it is known, as it is experienced, and as it is imagined by
those who dwell therein – those who journey along the paths connecting
lines and borders constructing webs and networks of associations –
networks of ownership. Imagining space couched within and defined by
borders and lines is, I would argue, is an essential nature of the
subjectivity of the nation-state inhabitant. This perhaps lies in the
center of contemporary anxieties of knowing and experiencing the world
and life. }
A Performance Platform
[ Performance
art is an offshoot of visual arts where the artist uses his/her body as a
medium of communication. Performance
art is a very powerful form of art and one could find well developed performance
art practices in many of the countries in Asia. However, due to many reasons performance art did not evolve within Sri
Lanka as a popular mainstream art practice,
even though the first recorded performance took place as far back as 1994. This is due mainly to lack of attention given
within the art educational institutions to performance art, lack of patronage
and not having a well- developed discourse on performance as an art form among
artist. None of the Sri Lankan higher education institutions have recognized
performance art as an area of interest in the visual arts. Although Sri Lanka
boast of highly developed performative elements within its religious rituals,
the art audiences are not familiar to the use of body as a medium in visual
arts in Sri Lanka. Though we have a long tradition of performing arts we have
not felt the need to pursue performance art as visual art form within the Sri
Lankan art scene. As an initial attempt of addressing this neglect of
performance art we are planning to conduct a performance event in Colombo in
March 2015.]
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