Festival31 Artists
This page will be a rotating showcase of Artists with lived experience of displacement who are based in the Liverpool City Region.
Kirushan Sivagnanam
Kirushan is a visual and performance artist, originally from Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, with a degree in Fine Art from the University of Jaffna. His practice explores identity, displacement, and transformation, grounded in his lived experience of migration. Kirushan’s work has a political and ethical grounding, being deeply concerned with economic inequality, colonialism, and oppressive systems, and how his work can articulate and explore this in the context of power imbalance, displacement, and migration. Since relocating to the UK, Kirushan’s work has grown into a deep and ongoing dialogue between body, place, and history, with the body central to this. “Performance is how I process, express, and connect. My artistic choices are not only creative, they are a form of listening: to the land, to people, to emotional tone…I am especially drawn to working in public spaces. I believe the street, the park, the corner of a square, these are the places where real encounters happen. Art should not be locked inside institutions. I want to create work that meets people where they already are. Work that doesn’t wait for permission. Work that enters daily life”.
Kirushan Sivagnanam is one of the Artists commissioned as part of this year's Festival31 programme. You can find out more about the residences here: https://festival31.co.uk/artist-residencies/.
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