At the end of 1998, I worked on a project with three artists whose work interested me for their performative and interactive qualities, to make large public.
Artist Pushpamala N uses her body as a medium to take on the nation state.!
Pushpamala: A Performative Deconstruction of the Typography of Indigenous Women Through a Postcolonial Lens
[1] Bhullar, “From deframing the oriental imagery to the making of the alternative other: Remapping the spaces of encounter,” 176; Mukherji, “Mimicking Anthropologists: Re-Membering a Photo Archive via Pata Paintings, Performative Mimesis, and Photo Performance,” 68.
[2] Gund Gallery, “Pushpamala N.”
[3] Kochi-Muziris, Biennale, Pushpamala N - Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014; Sinha, “Pushpamala N.
and the ‘Art’ of Cinephilia in India,” 248.
[4] Gillen, “Some Problems with ‘the Asian Century,” 75.
[5] Said, “Orientalism Reconsidered,” 10.
[6] Said, Orientalism, 108.
[7] Mandaville, “How Do Religious Beliefs Affect Politics?” 124.
[8] Sen, Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean: Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders, 4.
[9] Sen, “Savage Bodies, Civilized Pleasures: M.
V. Portman and the Andamanese,” 365.
[10] Throckmorton, Postdate: