Through works such as Take d Milk, Nah?, multi-disciplinary artist Jiv Parasram challenges the identity play by exploring how decolonization in thought and process transfers into an artistic offering.

In this funny, fresh, and skeptical take on the identity play, Jivesh blends personal storytelling and ritual to offer the Hin-dos and Hin-don’ts within the intersections of all of his highly hyphenated cultures.

“What does decolonization mean through aesthetics; and what does that look like for each individual artist?”

This story asks the gut-punching questions: What divides us? Who is served by the constructs of cultural identity? And what are we willing to accept in the desire to belong? Then again—it doesn’t really matter, because we are all Jiv.

Jivesh Parasram is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist and facilitator of Indo-Caribbean descent. He is the founding Artistic Producer of Pandemic Theatre and the Artistic Director of Rumble Theatre, following three years as the Associate Artistic Producer at Theatre Passe Muraille. He was a member of the Cultural Leader Lab with the Banff Centre and Toronto Arts Council. His public service work has included collaborations with the Ad Hoc Assembly, The Canadian Commission for UNESCO, and as an advisor to the National Arts Centre. His current cultural practice centres on decolonization through aesthetics. Parasram's work has toured nationally and internationally.