Huginn, Muninn and the Horseshoe (When Kalki Met O...
Site specific AR installations with narrationsSite specific AR installations in Mellerud Sweden, programmed to narrate stories, rotate, scale and morph. A glitchy encounter with horseshoe opens an inaccessible story, where memory (Muninn) fails to recall the time it helped thought. (Huginn).
Lingerings, Re:Mythings and Interfacings
PresentationPresentation at Shared Ecologies, thinking of Lingerings, Re:Mythings and Interfacings as method, idea and material through the projects "Meeting Kalki" and "Mythical Blottings".
Koth:Re
Drawings, Moving ImagesExploring loops, mundanity and negotiations with space during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Hekh: Detecting Signals and Generating Calls
Lecture Performance at SARAI, Center of Study for Developing Societies (CSDS)Detecting Hekh- A dual inhabitance of sensing and signalling simultaneously to make paradigms apparent. Amidst Guttural Origins, Spiralling Cyclicities, Historical Continuums, and Resonant Intensities.
Material Memories
ScreeningScreening of Crackle of an Undying Log under "Material Memories" at Shared Ecologies, New Delhi; thinking of reconfigurations and reconstitutions of ecology through memory, in documentations, material assemblages, mythologies and shared stories.
"Amidst Owls, Torpedoes and Serpents"
Keynote at Colloquium on Call #1 at India International Center (IIC), New DelhiKeynote at the Colloquium "Amidst Owls, Torpedoes and Serpents" at India International Center (IIC), New Delhi by Hekh, thinking of desiring, creating interfaces, shifting opacities and densities, invoking a Serpentine Discourse.
Call #1
PublicationPublication bringing together 16 young artists thinking together on how institutions and structures linger within artistic practices, navigating complex socio-cultural formulations and mapping resonant forms of being.
Into the Midst- I
Exhibition and ScreeningScreening, sharing and annotating of "Mythical Blottings", with other works by Maithili Bavkar, Bhanu Jindal, Soumya Yadav, Ritika Verma, Priyesh Gothwal, Priyank Gothwal, and Anurag Singraur at Mayur Vihar Studio, New Delhi.
Mythical Blottings
Genealogical Ponds, Museum Interfaces, AR, LingeringsA new ontology of the museum emerges, where myth, science, history and archaeology are being combined to generate new histories and identities in public memory. A lingering, awaits interfacing..
When Kalki Met Odin
Text, Cosmic Caws, Digital FossilsKalki meets Odin on the Ygdrassil, thinking of knowledge, images, and cosmic codexes and death drives. A cosmic deception becomes apparent, involving his two ravens Huginn (Thought) and Munnin (memory) and Norns of fate.
Tasting the Whisper of an Unfired Shot: Locating t...
Text, Whisperings, Unfired ShellsUdham Singh, a national hero finds himself unwillingly at the helm of new imaginations of nationalism, citizenship, and resistance. His statues become the interface for desires and paranoia of the majoritarian state.
Drawing as Interface: Tracing Fissures and Lingeri...
Workshop at Purana Quila (Old Fort), New Delhi in collaboration with Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA)Exploring drawing as an interface at the Purana Quila (Old Fort) In New Delhi; negotiating mythological, historical, and archaeological mergings using drawing and psychogeographical exercises as counter-narratives.
Meeting Kalki: Foamy Images and Genomic Photoshops
Lecture Performance at Studio A68A 32-minute lecture performance on "Meeting Kalki", thinking of genealogical dreams, death drives, cosmic codexes, and epistemic crystals; contouring new ontologies of the image that trace its genomic turn and inhabiting an interface of editing.
Whisper of an Unfired Shot
Text, Glitching, Historic HumsUdham Singh, a national hero respected for exacting revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh incident, finds himself unwillingly at the helm of new imaginations of nationalism, citizenship, and fluctuating parameters of thought and resistance.
Art in the Age of Institutional Reproduction: Mapp...
Text, Self portraitsInvestigating the proliferation of self portraits in College of Art, New Delhi portfolios; tracing institutional reproductions through colonial cocktails, media fetishes, ultimate 'isms', artistic labour and infrastructural and pedagogical deficits.
When Kalki Met Odin
Cosmic Caws, Digital Fossils, Moving Images, LiDar Scans.Kalki meets Odin on the Ygdrassil, thinking of knowledge, images, and cosmic codexes and death drives. A cosmic deception becomes apparent, involving his two ravens Huginn (Thought) and Munnin (memory).
Conjuring Worlds
Workshop at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA)Workshop thinking of hologram as an interface that can detect conjurings and lingerings; Becoming a portal to new worlds which we breathe in and out every day.
Curated Walkthroughs
Walkthroughs for "If we knew the Point" and "Magic in the Square" at KNMA, SaketCurated exhibition walkthroughs catered to specific ages, educational backgrounds, and language proficiency with varying duration and degrees of interactivity. Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, (KNMA), Saket
Workshops for Purvaee
Workshops designed and facilitated for the exhibition Purvaee at KNMA, New DelhiWorkshops facilitated and designed for the exhibition 'Purvaee' at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; exploring pedagogical and aesthetic lineages in Indian Art- provoking lingering debates of Art, Craft, Nation, and Heritage.
Community Art Workshops with KNMA
Workshops facilitated with various age groups in 2024Community Art Workshops facilitated during 2024, with various RWA in Gurgaon, New Delhi and Noida, India. Specific workshops, designed for various ages, encouraged participants to express themselves freely, focusing on personal stories and ideas.
Dissecting a Meta-Morphing Montage
Dissertation Presentation at Department of Art, Jindal Global UniversityThinking through the changing indexicality and evidentiality of the image in the contemporary, proposing navigation of diluted images.
Meeting Kalki
Polygonal limbos, Genelogical Dreams, Lecture Performance, BookConversations between Kalki, Odin and Osiris; Ruminating on a new ontology of the image, tracing its genomic turn and inhabiting interfaces of editing.
Whisper of an Unfired Shot
Video Essay, Digital Photography, PerformanceUdham Singh, a national hero respected for exacting revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh incident, finds himself unwillingly at the helm of new imaginations of nationalism, citizenship, and fluctuating parameters of thought and resistance.
नस्ल बचाओ (Nasl Bachao)
Digital Photography, Moving ImagesA new philosophy of othering is brewing, based in the genealogical- constructing a hyper-nationalist bloodline.
Book Show-I
Studio Jangpura, FICA, Shiv Nadar IOE."Surtiyan", "Chaardiwari", and "Meeting Kalki" displayed in various iterations of Book Show-I, curated by Priyesh Gothwal
Critical Zones- In Search of a Common Ground
3 February - 9 March, 2024. Goethe Institut, New Delhi."Crackle of an Undying Log", displayed at "Critical Zones", Goethe Institut, New Delhi; conceptualized by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, curated by Mira Hirtz and Bettina Korintenberg.
सुरतियाँ (Surtiyan)
Photobook, Pinhole PhotographsA book made of pinhole photographs thinking of the edge where light meets its shadow, as a progenitor of existential crisis, historical sums and structural fissures.
चारदीवारी (Chaardiwari)
Photo-Book, Pinhole PhotographsPhotobook made from Pinhole Photographs, thinking through ideas of home, belonging, care, collective memories, nostalgia and their complex interrelationality.
Porous Altas
30 September- 2 October, 2023. New Delhi"Propositional Inhabitations" displayed at Inceptive open house curated by Avik Debdas.
Crackle of an Undying Log
Docu-fiction, Performance, PhotographyA Kalpavriksha through a techno-mythical intersection, emerges as a harbourer of liquid reality, bringing to crises our notions of origins, survival, and genealogy of knowledge and enlightenment.
TEXTXET
9 November- 2 December, 2023. Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art (FICA).Photobook and Lecture Performance of "Meeting Kalki".
All That is Solid Melts Into Air
21 July-19 August, 2023. Anant Art Gallery, Noida.“Whisper of an Unfired Shot”, “Dissection of a Spectral Itch”, and “Nationalist Assembly” displayed at All That is Solid Melts Into Air, curated by Arushi Vats, Aditi Ghildiyal and Shankar Tripathi at the Anant Art Gallery, Noida in July 2023.
Bulandshehar Legacy Festival
Site-specific installation, Photobook and space for dialoguePhotobook made around the Bulandshehar Jail, connecting various anecdotes of city- inhabitants, surrounding workers, historical archives and personal experiences; installed outside the Bulandshehar Jail for public access.
Constructing a Prolonged Image
Bioscope, Pinhole negatives, Moving Images, InstallationThrough a set of experiments rooted in the inquiry to slow the image down, a ‘prolonged image’ emerged, where the viewer experiences an affective stretch through bodily labour in different intensities.
वार्तालाप (Vartalaap)
Photobook, InstallationPhotobook combining anecdotes and speculative narratives with images from the Bulandshahar Jail; exploring ideas of conservation, preservation, memorialization, and musealization of historical spaces.