Otniel TASMAN

Grants

To deepen his artistic and intellectual understanding through direct encounters with various practices, performances, and archives related to the body, gender, and spirituality. Tasman will explore the historicity of the body and aesthetic difference through archival research, interviews, and performance observations, focusing on the Lengger traditional dance and queer performance. Through these experiences, Tasman aims to expand his understanding of how the body carries both history and possibility and how performance can act as a site of transformation for spirituality, queerness, and aesthetics. The fellowship will provide contemplative space and critical distance necessary for Tasman to reflect on his ongoing research and to reframe his practice within a broader cross-cultural and philosophical context.