Performance

Movement art

Clean My Body Final Output-1.m4v

Clean my body

Clean My Body, 2022 – She trusted and loved a man. He tricked her to come from her village to the far away capital city Colombo. She was raped that night! When she opened her eyes, he was not there. But a strange group of men were surrounding her. Today she is a prostitute.

The movement art piece depicts this woman trying to take a shower to cleanse herself from the filth of rape. The first piece of red soap symbolizes the honest love that she dreamt. But she is surrounded by pieces of soap just like the men who surrounded her, to cleanse her, but painfully for no avail. The splash of water is the thundering slap from society on her character, that will never clean her to the purity they want.

Up to now, I have released my emotional experience through my artwork. In this work I am releasing an experience of a rural woman who was tricked, raped and forced into prostitution.

Dance with chair

Dance With Chair, 2021 – This is a series of aptured dancing movements taking my chair as a physical dancing partner. This chair is probably the most closely associated and used physical object during awaken hours of the covid period; For online meetings, meals, writing, reading, chatting with my partner, and so on.

Life, Entanglements

Life, Entanglements, 2019 – Life is entangled entanglements such as decisions to do higher studies and have family life as well as the choice to engage in art in socio politically very conscious environments, are chosen by me, myself. In these entanglements, I express my emotions to others. I look at the reflections of my expressions in an attempt to introspect into the emotions, feelings and thoughts connected and generated by my life’s entanglements.

Cocoon

Performance with yellow, black and white cloth, 2019, was performed with Fenia Kotsopoulou. This is a performance is intrinsically imbued with so many varied readings. The tensions between the binary opposites are the focus here. The artists get into a Cocoon and come out of it at the end.

Ritual Maker

Ritual Maker, 2019 – As a researcher, my focus in on ritual performance and dances. My rural roots don’t allow me to escape from black rituals and white rituals. I am engulfed in rituals. In this performance I make my own rituals to escape from the limitations of society, especially as a woman.

The Taste

The Taste, 2018 – Chocolate, cheese, pepper, butter, chilies a contrasting set of tastes akin to what I experienced in my honeymoon night as a virgin were crushed and mixed together in a vaginal mortar and with large phallic pistol. Disastrously, women are cultured enter marriage as virgins.

Burning in Love

Burning in Love, 2016 – this is a marking of a cathartic, ritualistic marking of an end to a love affair with intense feelings of wanting and hate, jealousy, anger, revenge and deep sorrow, burning in the love that I myself ignited. Pleading myself to accept the reality and go ahead with life.

Red Lips

Red Lips, 2016, performance is a protest of the impact of male dominance on womanhood, especially the Asian.

Bharathanatyam Performance

2013, Performed at the University of Colombo, Sri Palee Campus, individual, and duet performance.

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