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KHOJ Peers Open Day Supported by KHOJ International Artists Association. Something like falling off the world Forde, L’Usine, GenevaPhotographs: Théa Giglio
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Medium: PerformanceDuration: 4 in X 6 inYear: 2021 A tale of thousand hair strands looks into how the body is established and arranged into different categories so that a state of suspension, a mechanism of control and a machine of biopower is produced. It attempts to look into the problem of body-profiling where the physiognomic…
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Yusmarg Collective Kashmir & Students Kochi BiennaleMedium: Web II Performace II InstallationDimensions: variableYear: 2021 Residual Landscape uses narrative responses to the ‘domicide’ in Kashmir as a starting point for an understanding of the personal and collective to conceptualize processes that intersect peoples’ lives in different ways. The turn to narratives encompasses the flux. The flux…
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Medium: PerformanceDuration: 4 in X 6 inYear: 2021 The horror of Tulips attempts to question and resist narratives that favor exotic and nationalistic rhetoric through which Kashmiri landscape and body are seen. This performance at Asia’s largest Tulip Garden, a landscape that recalls the popular memory of Kashmir as a land of pristine beauty where…
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In collaboration with Yusmarg Collective KashmirMedium: Drawings & PerformanceDimensions: variableYear: 2020 C.A.V.E is a land art project which introspects into our own social, political, economical and existential being. The project begins with drawings of constellations on huge stones at Yusmarg (The meadow of Jesus) in hope to find a guiding star in peculiarly dark skies…
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Series: Lullaby of LostMedium: PerformanceDuration: 21 minYear: 2020 Song of the lost child is part of a series of performances ‘Lullaby of Lost’. This performance is conceived to understand the kind of inter-relationships that are evoked between body and space. It questions and resists narratives that favor exotic and nationalistic rhetoric through which the Kashmiri…
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Series: Lullaby of LostMedium: PerformanceDuration: 37 minYear: 2020 Insta Broadcast In an attempt to document the socio-psychological dimension of totalitarian rule that is written on the body and into the unconscious, I had been journaling my dreams soon after August 2019. Ghosts of past future is an excerpt I share from these entries for ‘Lullaby…
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Medium: p5.js SketchDimensions: VariableYear: 2020 my clock frozethe night,almond blossomspoured their red. Benumbed blooms is an attempt to understand the perception of time scale. The clock always places us in the paused frame of the present, now. The movement of the cursor across screen creates the beautiful visualizations. These visualizations are representations of nostalgic reminiscence.…
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Medium: Stop-motion Video (1920 x 1080 px)Duration: 67secYear: 2020 ‘Connecting’ is an effort to record the silence, following the ‘developments’* (August 4th, 2019) in Kashmir. It is a collection of screenshots of phone calls made to connect to family in Kashmir during the communication ban. The screenshots are compiled into a stop motion video.
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Medium: Postcards and online on InstagramDimensions: 4 in X 6 inYear: 2020 ‘Posts to Srinagar’ was an online collaborative initiative that intended to send postcards to Kashmir. Over a period of time, a number of messages were collected from those who wished to connect to people in Kashmir when the communication ban was imposed. A…
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Medium: PerformanceDuration: —Year: 2020 ‘Notes on surveillance’ took place as a part of the performance event organized by Inprocess (Body in Surveillance) in Delhi during CAA/NRC protests. It is a part of a performance series that took place post-AUG 5 2019 as a mark of resistance, resentment and opposition to the continuing attempts to silence…
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Medium: PerformanceDuration: —Year: 2020 ‘Notes on surveillance’ took place as a part of the performance event organized by Inprocess (Body in Surveillance) in Delhi during CAA/NRC protests. It is a part of a performance series that took place post-AUG 5 2019 as a mark of resistance, resentment and opposition to the continuing attempts to silence…
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Title: Untitled IVChair, light, Sticks, Ants, Sculpture (POP Bandages)Dimensions: VariableYear: 2019 This work deals with the problematics of life in Kashmir. A headless figure represents bare life. The cast was taken off from different live bodies. This headless entity is tied to a chair with ropes and the body is stuck in an uncomfortable position…
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Title: Untitled IMedium: Installation (Burrowed garments and resin)Dimensions: VariableYear: 2018 How does memory get embedded in different objects/materials (in this case garments)? how do these objects turn into a memoir and take a commemorative form? These garments assist in tracing continuity between past and present. The nature of the work is such that there is…
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Medium: Drawing on gateway sheetsDimensions: 20cm X 30cmYear: 2018 The drawings on maps emphasizes on the relationship between the elements of the landscape that would include changes in infrastructure and topography. The work is an attempt to document the memories in structured landscape where violence, conflict and crisis act as tools. The work explores the…
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Contested Landscape is a set of 11 Photographs documenting the course of the river Indus in India. It attempts to capture the dichotomies, the contestation and the role of Landscape in shaping identities andmemories in Kashmir. While presenting a serene and calm view of the river, the works explores the violent history and memory in…
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Instructions to view this Video: To view the video: 1. Open the accessibility option in the settings menu of your smartphone. 2. Choose the invert color option. 3. Exit to the homepage.4. Now open the camera and enjoy the video on your screen. MEDIUM: Single Channel VideoDURATION: 1 M 27 SYEAR: 2018 Passive City attempts…
