Ruhanie Perera

By adelyn-1800, 21 November, 2022
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Ruhanie Perera is a performer, performance-maker and lecturer working in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is a founding director of Floating Space Theatre Company, and is also attached to the Department of English, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka as a visiting lecturer in performance and literature.

Ruhanie holds an MA in Performance and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches from Goldsmiths, London (2009), and her research has addressed storytelling cultures, performative acts and identities and cultural memory. Her most recent research project was titled A Place for Herstory: Memory, Archive and Creative Agency, and was presented at the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, University of Brighton, September 2013. 

Ruhanie’s recent work as a performer includes Forgetting November (2015, Harold Pieris Gallery [Colombo]); Inscribing Her (2013, Solo for the International Art Critics’ Association Seminar – Unpacking Multiple Identities within Gender Based Art [Colombo]); Somewhere Between Truth and its Telling (2012, Solo for Stranger Than Fiction [London]); and My Other History (2011 [Colombo] and 2012 [Galle, Jaffna and Kandy]).

Ruhanie also works as a curator in visual art contexts, creating conversations across practice – more recently as the curator of the ‘live art’ segment of the Colombo Art Biennale (2014) and currently (2015/2016) as the curatorial advisor of the ‘Sacred Cities’ project – an artistic research initiative by Espace Gallery, Delhi, India and Theertha International Artists’ Collective, Sri Lanka.

Last Updated: 2017

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