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INFUSED COMBUSTION
I was invited to be part of I Rise Second Edition (Women’s Exhibition at Art houz) to mark month of Women’s Day Festival. I chose to
performance Infused Combustion as part of my contribution to festival this again goes back to Women’s issues and concerns of victims of
Rape Ceaseless (endless) waiting for justice and agony of going through the process is constant. In this pretext especially as women the
challenges are multi fold and in India it seems to be all the more complex. Socially and politically the pace at which these issues are being
addressed is really a cause for concern. This leads to a psychological state of self combustion. My performance is an attempt to bring these
inner traumatic humiliation agony and ceaseless state that goes in the mind of a victim and also state of society and their sociological
concern in our country .Sadly this cycle goes on, it is not new and we don’t know how many unknown and known names lose their
battle/fight for justice through my work I am just trying to bring small part of this whole cycle. My attempt is to see, read and bring this
state of individual victim’s tension, and traumatic experience in my work. I feel this traumatic fear and pain is slowly spreading in our society
and no wonder one day it will become mass hysteria of pain and tension. The work is in abstract representation of my subconscious
impulse to such situation and I try to bring the healing element through an act from audience participation it is interactive performance
where audience will participate in act of healing by planting glass of milk in front of mass of black ball on site which is connected to hair of
artist which metaphorically represent wounded and negatives of society in form black ball.