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Southern Oceanic Choreographic Practices
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Abstract

This article is centred on the performance , which was first performed in 2012. Since then, it has been archived and exhibited in the form of a video work. The performance references key incidents that contributed to its creation: (1) the making of the performance titled , specifically an archived conversation undertaken as actor research; (2) the censorship of by the Public Performances Board of Sri Lanka and (3) the embodied actions and objects in the composition of created in response to the memory of the conversation that preceded it. As such, this article employs selected photographs of the performances in order to position artistic choices made, as well as an exploration of the two interconnected performances through their relationship to the memory of war and the lived experience of traumatic events. The performance of thus acts as a reflexive framework that opens up a space where experiences of performance-making can be critically evaluated through embodied witnessing that supports an exchange or transmission of memory through storytelling and how accountability comes to be situated in the practice of performing from the lived experience of violence and trauma.

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Somewhere Between Truth and Its Telling: Memory and its materiality
Choreographic Practices 14, 175 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00066_1
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Keyword(s): censorship; embodied practice; performance; Sri Lanka; trauma; witness

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