Abstract: In this dissertation I examine the performances by a select group of South Asian women that took place in California between 2002 and 2005 from the point of view of a fellow artist. In particular I look at the work of actresses and playwrights Meera Simhan, Laxmi Chandrashekar, hip hop performance artist D'Lo, choreographers Shyamala Moorty and Anjali Tata, and the community performance project Yoni Ki Baat (Talk of the Vagina). In those performances, the women artists contest the narratives of womanhood that relegate women to the role of bearer of tradition, reproducing the inner domestic realm of the homeland in the diaspora. They undomesticate their bodies by challenging and disrupting values of purity, modesty, pleasantness, chastity and self-sacrifice, which are inscribed on and reproduced through their bodies. The lens through which I analyze their work is the notion of domesticity in contrast to a notion of home, as well as the idea of performing the impossible. The notion of 'impossibility' in this project refers to South Asian women's performances of undomesticated bodies or the undomestication of bodies, which are incompatible with the 'modern' narratives of nationalism and dominant imaginations of diaspora. I understand the imagination of the nation as well as the diaspora not as much as an imagination of home, but as a reproduction of domesticity. The domestic sphere is a colonially inflected version of the home, which reproduces a colonial relation of power that parallels the evolutionary family: The subordination of woman to man, and child to adult, were figured as natural facts allowed other social hierarchies to be depicted and sanctioned in the same naturalized terms. I argue that the inner realm of the nation is actually a nationalist translation of Victorian domesticity that transformed the home of a civilization into the domesticated space of nation. Through their performances, the women I write about disrupt those dominant notions of home and community by making visible an impossibility: undomesticated female bodies. Thereby they point to the possibilities of an undomesticated homes and communities.