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Eye-Action - AN extra PAIR of EYES for GIRLS in NEW DELHI
I made 12 pairs of extra EYES in paper and black tusch, and went to South Extension Part II square in the evening to hand out extra pair of eyes to the women only.

I was told by Indians how Indian men stare at womens' breast all the time, consciously or not. This is only the smaller part of what is called EVE-TEASING by ROAD-ROMEOS in INDIA. Ranging from staring to actual rape and molestration of both women and men.

Upon all the hard core information I had caught in my body and mind within the 3 weeks I stayed in New Delhi mostly through women help organizations, indian female artists activsts, foreign girls living in india, and indian male students - I chose to carry out an EYE-ACTION in New Delhi at 10pm-11pm in South Extension Part II

This particular square was chosen since middle class and upper middle class people come there. Statistically sexual harassment is carried out by people in middle class and upper-class. It is not poor people who is majority in carrying out sexual harassment.

When I got to the square, there were no women around, as expected. I only met one girl, walking fast through the square with her boyfriend. I gave her an extra pair of eyes, I don't think she liked the attention.

In the square I asked the Indian men, quite naive questions: "What do you see, when you are looking? What do you think when you see these(pointing at paper eyes)? I have heard Indian men stare at girls' breasts, I would like to give the girls and extra pair of eyes, where are they? I miss the girls here in the night, why are they not here? Where are all the girls? What if I was an indian girl doing like this?"

At first the guys would ask: "Are you from a television channel, a commercial, or a charity group, who do you represent?" I would say "I am a visual artist I represent no-one but myself"
The the guys would give a variety of answers: "you doing so is ok", "if it was an indian girl it would be different, indian girls are more conservative" "to most indians what you do is very odd...very odd"' "you arouse some sort of.." 'it would be shamefull' "'india is a very conservative country, we do not want anybody to cross any boundaries" and others "you can do what you want" etc.

I was amazed how much movement in public and how much talk it created. After all I was' just' wearing an extra pair of paper-eyes on my breasts. Doing the same in any other country would probably also create a lot of communication, India is far not the only country facing sexual harassment. In my own country, Denmark, we have our hard issues too!

I wanted to meet the indian men out there at night in the streets, and I wanted to see their reactions to my move.

I wanted to ask questions to the guys - not in a confronting way, but in a play-full and yet serious way to get them to speek about their opions on WHY girls aren't seen in the streets after 9-10pm, and what it means to the guys when they see a foreign girl with paper-eyes wide open on her breasts.

I didn't want to judge indian guys and fall into the pitfall of ANXIETY hiding away, I wanted to open public space to Indian women in a symbolic way handing out extra eyes for the girls. What I could do as a visual artist, was only a small prankster gesture compared to the volume of the problem, trying to bridge the mental gap between the sex, to broaden communicaition, bring 'no-fear of meeting', bring 'play-full-ness', and literally be in the streets where the guys were and 'ask for the girls I missed'.

See 35.40 min documentationmovie on front Delhi page.