JUMP SHIP
SUMUGAN SIVANESAN with WT NORBERT
Jump Ship

Jump Ship
Endurance/Performance
Mixed Media
2010

Exhibition notes [PDF]

Jump Ship plays on the tradition of sailor tattoos to recall a history of South Asians at sea. As boat loads of refugees attempt to enter Australia, the piece recounts the decolonizing role of lascars and the effect of Indian dissent on the European imagination. It marks tribute to the misfits, misanthropes and mutineers that flung fouling ropes into the course of colonial progress.

In collaboration with WT Norbert.

The performance took place on February 11, 2010 at Gaffa, Sydney.

Jump Ship
cones

February 12–23, 2010
Gaffa