Iโm glad to share my recent article, Fugitive Sites: Tamil Memorialization in Post-War Sri Lanka, published in Journal of Visual and Performing Arts (JOVPA-SL).
In this piece, I reflect on how performance can become a space for memory in contexts where mourning is heavily policed. The article takes as its starting point a devised performance, Strangers in the Night, and the discussions that unfolded around it in Tamil-majority regions during Maaveerar Naal (Remembrance Day). What interested me was how these moments, often fleeting, embodied, and emotionally charged, function as what I call โfugitive sitesโ of memorialization. They are unstable and risky, but they allow memory to persist in embodied ways that resist the state archive.
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