We owe everything to Tiger Women.
They are the poet fighters of our age. By wielding their weapons and their pens, they thrust us into a world where dark-skinned dirty girls in sarees become warriors. Where Indian and Sri Lankan governments alike, shook in fear when they heard the footsteps of Tamil women. The burning of Jaffna Public Library in 1981, a tactic by the Sri Lankan government to eradicate our language, only fuelled our fire. We rose from the flames, empowered, with flexing muscles and curving hips. Our bodies are immovable pieces of gold. Our language is unerasable. There is salt in our veins. Ash on our skin. Clay in our bones. We refuse to be eradicated.
Néa Ishana Ranganathan is a genderqueer land-based sculptor, DIY live artist and anti-colonial organiser of Tamil-British descent from Boston, MA. Their artistic and academic practice centres on iterative, durational and site-specific work focusing on the documentation of Tamil homeland. She has an interest in the relationship between body, mess and found objects. He curates spaces and interventions around grief work with a focus on Palestinian Liberation as Campaign Officer for the South London anti-imperialist collective, Built On Blood.
Lead & Designer for Socially Engaged Theatre Camp in Washinton D.C. (2020-present)
Supported Artsadmin’s Another Route Fellowship in Ghent, Belgium (March 2023)
Supported The Yard Theatre in the NOW Festival (May 2023)
Supported the delivery of Healing Justice Lnd’s Rehearsing Freedoms Festival (October 2023)
Producing and Artist Support Placements with Artsadmin in collaboration with Raze Collective on Queer Clash Diary and Rich Mix on Arab Women Arts Now Festival (February 2024)
Lead Audience Guide for the UK tour of Memory of Birds by Tania El Khoury (May 2024)
BA Theatre & Social Change Graduate (September 2024)
Migrant Artist for FIRST DRAFTS by PROJEKT EUROPA (September 2024)
shelf/break with Jane Morris (Novemeber 2024)