Performance: ‘Text-ing-Be-ing’ with Danushka and Srinath

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka

Performance: ‘Text-ing-Be-ing’ with Danushka Marasinghe and K K Srinath Chathuranga

Artists Danushka (b. 1985) and Srinath (b. 1987) activate their interactive performance ‘Text-ing-Be-ing’ (2019), currently on display in ‘The Foreigners’. Taking up positions on either side of a grid of red plastic tape on the floor, they slowly begin to write Sinhala letters in white chalk within the confines of each square. Their goal is to work their way from one side of the grid to the other. Meeting in the middle, each artist subsequently begins to erase the other’s writing, replacing it with their own. After repeating this exercise a few times, the artists invite the audience to participate, giving rise to a collective writing performance which introduces further disruptions to the grid. The work explores how a language establishes a system of communication that is impenetrable to those who are foreign to it. Within the rules of engagement of the performance however, one language could be overwritten and erased by a foreign tongue.This Performance has been curated as part of the Public Programmes of the exhibition ‘The Foreigners’, on view until 22 October 2023.දනුෂ්ක (b. 1985) සහ ශ්‍රීනාත් (b. 1987) යන කලාකරුවන්, මේ වනවිට ‘ආගන්තුකයෝහි’ සංදර්ශිත ‘Text-ing-Be-ing’ (2019) නම් සිය අන්තර්ක්‍රියාකාරී අභිවහනය ඉදිරිපත්කරනු ඇත. මෙම කොටු සැලැස්මේ දෙපස ස්ථානගතවෙමින් ඔවුහු එක් එක් චතුරශ්‍රයේ සීමා තුළ සුදු හුණු භාවිතාකරගනිමින් සෙමෙන් සිංහල අකුරු ලිවීමට පටන්ගත්හ. ඔවුන්ගේ ඉලක්කයවූයේ කොටු සැලැස්මේ එක් පසෙක සිට අනෙක් අතට ගමන්කිරීමයි. ඉන් අනතුරුව මධ්‍යයේ එක්වූ කලා ශිල්පීන් දෙදෙනා එකිනෙකාගේ ලිවීම් මකාදැමීමට පටන්ගත් අතර ඒවා වෙනුවට තම තමන්ගේ ඒවා ලිව්වෝ ය. මෙම අභ්‍යාසය නැවත නැවතත් කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව කලාකරුවෝ ප්‍රේක්ෂකයින්ට සහභාගීවීමට ආරාධනාකළහ. මින් කොටු සැලැස්මේ තවදුරටත් ව්‍යාකූලතා ඇතිකරමින් සාමූහික ලේඛන අභිවහනයක් නිර්මාණයවිය. භාෂාවක් ආගන්තුකයින්ට ප්‍රවේශවිය නොහැකි සන්නිවේදන පද්ධතියක් ගොඩනගන ආකාරය මෙම කලාකෘතිය ගවේෂණයකරයි. කෙසේ වෙතත්, අභිවහනයේ නිරතවීමේ රීතිවලට අනුව එක් භාෂාවක් මකාදමමින් ඒ මතින් විදේශීය භාෂාවක් ලිවීමට හැක.මෙම අභිවහනය 2023 ඔක්තෝබර් 22 දක්වා නැරඹීමට ඇති ‘ආගන්තුකයෝ’ ප්‍රදර්ශනයේ මහජන වැඩසටහන්වල කොටසක් ලෙස අභිරක්ෂණයකර ඇත.‘அந்நியர்’ கண்காட்சியில் காட்சிப்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ள ஊடாட்டம் நிறைந்த ஆற்றுகையான ‘Text-ing-Be-ing’ (2019) ஐ, கலைஞர்களான தனுஷ்க (பி. 1985) மற்றும் ஸ்ரீநாத் (பி. 1987) ஆகியோர் செயல்படுத்துகின்றனர். கட்டத்தின் எதிர் திசைகளில் நின்ற வண்ணம், ஒவ்வோரு சதுரத்தினுள்ளும் வெள்ளை சுண்ணக் கட்டியுடன் சிங்கள எழுத்துக்களை எழுத ஆரம்பித்தனர். இவ்வாறாக, கட்டத்தின் ஒரு பக்கத்திலிருந்து மறு பக்கத்திற்கு செல்வதே அவர்களின் இலட்சியமாக இருந்தது. கட்டத்தின் நடுவில் கலைஞர்கள் சந்தித்துக்கொண்டதன் பின்னர், மற்றவர் எழுதிய எழுத்துக்களை ஒன்றொன்றாக அழித்து அவர்களின் எழுத்துக்களை எழுதினர். இவ்வாறு சில முறை செய்த பின்னர் கலைஞர்கள் பார்வையாளர்களை பங்குகொள்ளுமாறு அழைத்தனர். இதன் பொழுது நடந்த கூட்டாக எழுதும் செயற்பாட்டினால் கட்டத்துக்கு மேலும் பல மாற்றங்கள் அறிமுகப்படுத்தப்பட்டன. ஒவ்வொரு மொழியும், அம்மொழியை அறியாதவர்களால் ஊடுருவ முடியாத தொடர்பாடல் அமைப்பொன்றை எவ்வாறு ஏற்படுத்துகிறது என்பதை இப் படைப்பு ஆராய்கின்றது. ஆனால் இந்நிகழ்ச்சியின் விதிகளின் படி, ஒரு மொழியை அழித்து வேறு அந்நிய மொழியொன்று எழுதப்படலாம்.22 ஒக்டோபர் 2023 வரை பார்வைக்கு வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள ‘அந்நியர்’ கண்காட்சியின் பொது நிகழ்ச்சிகளில் ஒன்றாக இக் ஆற்றுகை வழங்கப்படுகிறது.

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