Again and again is a durational performance that attempts to address the experiences of the oppressed, marginalized and forgotten in the historical discourse of contemporary Myanmar mainly due to the political violence. In so doing, the collective questions the precariousness and grievability of their lives in general. Although the collective attempts to tackle the issues around the collective trauma caused by the political violence and injustice by drawing upon specific corporal and temporal experiences from the post-colonial period in Myanmar since 1948, the collective acknowledges that these issues around political violence are applicable to many parts of the world from the Global North to the Global South. 

In this performance, the artist sits motionless on a chair with his head covered in a black cloth in an empty room throughout the entire duration of the performance.The empty room here signifies empty spaces and places that are the consequences of rampant and systematic political violence happening all over the world, and most notably in Myanmar and in Ukraine nowadays. A black cloth around the head of the artist represents the unmourned identities and communities that have long been suffering from the senseless acts of political violence in many parts of the world.

Framed within the specific context of the corporal and everyday experiences of individuals/communities dwelling on or moving along the borders of stability and instability, hope and hopelessness and life and death, this performance can also be viewed as an attempt to create or recreate a presence of the absentlives and ungrievable lives using corporality and temporality of an artist’s body.

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