Featured Performer 1997
Peel
Sheelah-Grace Murthy
Sheelah-Grace Murthy currently lives in Chicago and presents Selling Shakti at the Colonial Arcade on Sunday May 4. She has recently received her MFA in performance from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Set in a video and film installation, Murthy takes the audience on a "journey" to uncover her identity and explore the misuse of spirituality. Murthy dresses in a plastic sari and competes with t.v. monitors playing game shows, old family super 8's and samples of deconstructed Hindi movies to find authenticity and wisdom. She investigates the selling of religion and and blurs the Eastern and Western cultures that divide her identity.