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Bring me the Smell of Earth and I Bring

you taste of Love‘

Theertha International Performance Festival Colombo
2015

Performed as part First Performance Festival in
Colombo, Srilanka which was initiated by Theertha International
Residency in Colombo. The team Theertha invited me for their
performance art Festival under the curatorial title Border and Lines:
the Temporality of Landscape. This performance was about the
bridging bond between two countries the performance was
intended to share love and compassion without having any barrier
of borders or barrier landscape the earth become one common
ground (space) on which all human has equal right they cannot be
divided on basis of caste creed and ethnicity that was main essence

of performance. There was Sense of sharing through their Love,
Affection and Compassion the main essence of faith and trust. In
the performance I used most eternal element the Clay (earth as
basic element for my intervention. I choose to perform in most
crowded space in Bus Stand of Borella area in Colombo where there
is constant flow of public. This performance would have been
incomplete without the public intervention and they actively
participated in my performance. They shared their part of space
(clay earth to me and in return I shared the taste of Love (toffee

made of jiggery and Neem leaf) this is symbolic act where the love
is not always sweet but the true taste of love is mixed with some
bitterness and they in returned submerged me in the smell of their
Earth (clay) and metaphorically giving me some space in their
landscape and heart.