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SUMUGAN SIVANESAN
PERFORMANCE: WHAT’S EATING GILBERTO GIL?
Sumugan Sivanesan probes global dynamics, cultural exchange and regional popular cultures via an eclectic, cross disciplinary practice.
Recent activities include: What’s Eating Gilberto Gil – a performance/lecture on cannibalism as a cultural strategy, Jump Ship – an endurance/performance in collaboration with acclaimed tattoo artist WT Norbert that discusses a history of South Asians at sea; Nice Dreams – a major installation with Gustavo Böke interrogating what many regard to be the first act of terrorism in Australia; The Trouble with TJ – a series of installations, videos and text, marking 5 years since the death of aboriginal teenager TJ Hickey and the subsequent “Redfern Riots” ; a major installation at Cockatoo Island for the Biennale of Sydney, 2008 as part of theweathergroup_U; Gang 2008 – Australia/Indonesia cultural exchange. He is also active with media/art gang boat-people.org.
He has exhibited at events such as the Sydney Underground Film Festival (2009), OK Video Festival (Jakarta, Indonesia 2009), Filmer la musique (France 2009) Transit Lounge (Berlin/Australia, 2006 & 2008), Transmediale (Germany 2006), Videobrasil (Brasil 2005), Gang (Indonesia/Australia 2005), Electrofringe (Australia 2003), Abstraction Now (Vienna 2003), New Forms (Canada 2003), The International Symposium for Electronic Art (Japan 2002), d>ART (Australia 2002 & 2004), Liquid Architecture (Australia 2002 & 2004 – 05), Experimenta (Australia 2001).
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