This performance was a site specific response for the project Texting Being at Theertha International Performance Platform, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The site I chose to interact and perform had a series of butcher shops in one of the main market complex at Borella junction. These shops were illegal settlement under a government building where a variety of meat is sold from morning to late evening every day.

(Because of its illegal presence documentation of the whole performance was not allowed.) 

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Using texts as an extension of the performance I invited my viewers to stamp ‘eyes to see’, ‘nose to smell’, ‘tongue to taste’, ‘ear to hear’ & ‘skin to touch’ with blood on my body. The action of stamping on my flesh left blood stains on my body and their hands. The action of stamping is a reminder of our indirect involvement with the contemporary political instability around us. We cannot forget the fact that we live in between the living and the dead now.