An Eye for an Eye: the Hapticality of Collaborative Photo-Performance in Native Women of South India / SHARANYA

SHARANYA, «An Eye for an Eye: the Hapticality of Collaborative Photo-Performance in Native Women of South India». Theatre Research International, 44,  2, (2019), pp. 118-134

Abstract
This article examines the haptic politics of the Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs (2000–2004) ‘theatre museum’ composed by Indian performance artist Pushpamala N. and British photographer Clare Arni. Through a transnational collaboration, Native Women re-creates a visual genealogy of ‘popular’ Indian women images, reckoning with legacies of colonial and photographic studio photography. The article focuses on the engagements of Native Women with colonial representations of ‘the native’ (woman) in particular and asks: How does a transnational project resituating colonial ethnographic practices inform feminist performance methodologies? How does this photo-performance develop a haptic attempt at transnational solidarity? In what ways do haptic entanglements with photo-performance constitute new imaginations for collaborative practices? The article repositions Native Women as a performance work that reflects collaboration as a process of political intimacy.

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ISSN: 0307-8833, 1474-0672
DOI: 10.1017/S0307883319000014
URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-research-international/article/an-eye-for-an-eye-the-hapticality-of-collaborative-photoperformance-in-native-women-of-south-india/06596585379B151A8C1C36C4B835821F
Language: EN
key: XT849LSQ