This document is an unedited draft on the basis of which art critic Geeta Kapur delivered an illustrated lecture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, on 5 December 2006.

Versions of this lecture under different titles were also presented in the following venues:

- 'Play of Self and Gender,' Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, July 2007;
- 'Through the Lens: Gender in Performance,' School of Arts and Aesthetics, J.N.U., New Delhi, March 2008; and
- 'Through the Lens: Gender in Performance,' India Moderna exhibition talk, IVAM (Institut Valencia d’Art Moderna), Valencia, February 2009

Artists mentioned in the presentation include Nalini Malani, Pushpamala N., Dayanita Singh, Tejal Shah, and Sonia Khurana.