ehsan gill

If it is at all possible to locate my Ph.D. thesis around a central research question it would be to ask how we constitute the other though the body in arts practice. Specifically as is ascribed to my embodied experience, how we go about creating the space for the ‘othered’ body in Live Art pratices. Obviously this is by no means a new area of enquiry, with clear over lapping objectives in the western body art practices of the 1960’s/70’s. The unique attempt at knowledge in my study is how phenomenological approaches to race in performance practice allow for intersubjective readings that are not possible under post-modern and poststructuralist frameworks. The race in question and the location of my phenomenology etched across my duel ethic and geographic heritage as a Pakistani born, but decidedly British, asian male.