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Site specific live performance, 2006
In collaboration with Varsha Nair

Swathed in an outer shell of white self-embroidered fabric, two bodies wrap in an urban landscape to shape with the architecture. The straightjacket exoskeleton joined at the arms forms an outstretched bridge to span the distance between being connected and being able to touch.

Tejal Shah (Bombay) and Varsha Nair (Bangkok) talked via email about their respective interest in hysteria, the edge within everyday normality, and loneliness within the teeming cities they live in, and shared their own isolation.
Presenting their interactions at National Review of Live Arts (Glasgow), different sites in Turin city and Tate Modern (London) all in 2006 - they create a durational tableau vivant - daily meditations - responding immediately to the spaces they encounter.


 
© Tejal Shah 2005