और ढालकी கட்டுக்கதைகள் | aor dhalki kattukadhaigal
aa idjhfo और ढालकी கட்டுக்கதைகள் | aor dhalki kattukadhaigal ouhf j aihif
I work with interactive sound, text, and installation in Tamil and English, through the methods of collaborative and individual improvisational performance (guitar and percussion), generative sound and projection-based installation, sonic cartography, hypertext narrative, book-object making, archival inquiry, and embedded critical theorisation in bi-lingual/aural essays.
My ongoing research and practice has been focused primarily on listening with the embodied nature of sound and sound-making in recordings and recountings, specifically in the context of queer and trans+ peoples, peoples marginalized by caste, and other peoples forced into ephemerality (José Esteban Muñoz, “Ephemera as Evidence: Introductory Notes to Queer Acts,” in “Queer Acts,” special issue, Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 8, no. 2 (1996): 5 – 11.). I've approached this 'listening' through attempts in modelling these ephemeral sound ecologies and through (con)textualizing sound through citation, annotation, transcription, translation, and thick description.
aa idjhfo meow(José Esteban Muñoz, “Ephemera as Evidence: Introductory Notes to Queer Acts,” in “Queer Acts,” special issue, Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 8, no. 2 (1996): 5 – 11.) moe