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).
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..
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.
नस्ल बचाओ (Nasl Bachao)
Digital Photography, Moving ImagesA new philosophy of othering is brewing, based in the genealogical- constructing a hyper-nationalist bloodline.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Koth:Re
Drawings, Moving ImagesExploring loops, mundanity and negotiations with space during the Covid-19 Pandemic