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Artist Talk (Australia)

Shakthidharan Sivanathan and Nithya Nagarajan invited me to facilitate the very first session of their newly forming and simultaneously evolving sharing economy for South Asian artists in Australia, The Homework Club, today. I hosted a session with 12 brown artists/arts workers on radical ways of interrupting. We spoke about how erasure is easy for people who occupy positions of power. Erasure has a politics and a history of violence. I shared a few of my digital art projects and interventions pre COVID-19: Crowd Condo I, II and III and Sleep I, II and III, and then discussed different ways to understand what is 'artist's time' amidst a pandemic. Is performing for audiences online a substitute for conventional theatre? Or are we asking the wrong question? Online performances can be dispersed not concentrated, distributed not centralised, de-authored yet scripted, collective and intimate. The digital medium can make us look for new ways to think about what it means to practice theatre. Delighted to forge this new connection.

Earlier Event: April 30
Artist Talk
Later Event: May 9
Artist Talk