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I am not me 2012

Johannesburg, South Africa

The human self is denied existence by the repressive labor market for immigrants...

The performance sought to offer that part of the human self that is denied existence by the repressive labor market for immigrants...
In this project, I collected and substituted the posters of illegal immigrant laborers with human skills offered as a profession to be sold with handwritten contact numbers of the same laborers around the city of Johannesburg to mislead and confuse the locals for a couple of weeks.

The project concluded with a performance conducted with a group of migrant laborers on the highway of Johannesburg on selling personal skills with placards announcing the offered personal skill at hand. As a tiller, like a plumber, as a friend, as a human, as a mother, and as a dreamer; different identities were explored by me along with immigrants through their daily struggles.

projects

2023
mOTHERTONGUE
iWITNESS
“I am from there. I am from here”
mOTHER I SPELL YOU WRONG

2022
Until you 206

2021
Be Beyond Being
Until You..

2020
Uncatharsis
BERKELEY FOR SALE !!
QR
Unlockdown

2019
UnMansplaining
Lunch is cancelled
How to be a SUCKcessful Artist
100 (un)silent ways

2018
UnMYthU: UnKIND(s) Alternatives

2017
Unlynching
Sounding Drawing
Unline
Unhome in City IF Angels
We Unfinish each other
I Replace You
Embodied Language
Return Gifts: For Sale

2016
(Left Untold)
Aphasia
Kenopsia
Mis(s)Guide

2015
Tongue that won't stop wounding
Unwor(l)dly
Nonversation

2014
Border Unseen
Shop Lifting
I have only one language; it is not mine
Poems Declined
A ° V O I D

2013
I Am a Poet
Deafening Silence
Same River Twice
Artist: Unknown
Cannibal Lullaby

2012
I am not me
Devoid
In House Adoption
Twinkle Twinkle

2011
MOU (Museum of Unbelongings)
Once upon a sari
Ahh Taj !!
For(e)play
In Transit
No thing

2010
graffiti
Black Candy (Iforgotmypenisathome)
Unwanted

2009
Abstract Cabinet
Dropping Gold, Dropping Gold
Me two

2008
Nothing lost in translation
I dig,I look down

2007
Non spinal
Freemithu 2007-ongoing
Half Full
Kamdhenu
Indubala and her Unbelongings

2006
I chew, I bite, The Unknown
Icarus
All that's solid melts into air
It's good to be a queen
Letters on the beach
Drawing Room
Ephemeral Affair
Being Anastacia

2005
Spiritual materialistic

2004
No star, No land, No word, No Commitment
Breathing
Burnt by the sun
Outside the war zone

2003
I hate pink
Twilight Zone

2002
No way out

2001
Unbelongings

2000
Can we really look beyond the map?
Hair Unbelongings