Imagining Gatherings: Collectives and Beyond

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Notes of Notes of a Working Novel

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A letter for cuties

A heartfelt letter from a recent art graduate to her juniors studying in the same institute as a gesture of care.

Tracing Natural Intelligence

A lecture performance by Ursula Maria Probst and Raashish India, thinking of Natural Intelligence, its relationship with Artificial intelligence and indigenous knowledge from around the world.

The Unspoken Taboo of Art or Why the Intelligible....

A reading of the unpublished essay by zeropowercut "THE UNSPOKEN TABOO OF ART OR WHY THE UNINTELLIGIBLE IS CRUCIAL FOR ANNIHILATION OF CASTE" and an installation

Call #2 Launch

Launch of Call #2 at Shared Ecologies, New Delhi with activations by Smriti Rastogi, Funny Livdotter and Paribartana Mohanty on 29th November, 2025

I Love Lattice: A Journey Through Space and Time C...

A telepathic connection, between Mexico and Delhi, moves through lapses in consciousness and internet worlds, towards formation of a new civic, intercaste world order that can escape capitalism.

Homografiska

An Interview with Funny Livdotter, founder of Homografiska- the first physical queer museum in Sweden; detailing different navigations between performativities of the self and institutions through capital, state, and institution building.

The Great Immortality Fund

An insurance policy, reveals systems of institutionalisation and immortalisation for artists through rituals of calculated redistribution of resources.

Burping Baby

A viscerally embodied account of pregnancy loss through an affective, somatic and spiritual lens, and art making as a restorative and confrontational experience in this reckoning

The Fig Tree and the Field

A journey through multiple pedagogical institutions, where the artist reflects on uncertainty, choice, and staying in the field, while navigating through the art world increasingly shaped by space making practices.

Set Building Notes for Orifices

Set building notes on toilet spaces in Hong Kong shopping malls, offering a disinterested account of involuntary bodily movements, inanimate objects, pressure, light, sound and smell in these liminal spaces, an anecdote on space, exploitation and sub...

Faint Growls of Guerilling Gorilla(s)

Faint growls of gorillas whisper around the cage of an unauthored space in College of Art, New Delhi, unraveling different orders of time, rest, and gestures of space-making in response to legacy and institutionalisation.

Ant Through Push In

A পর্ব Tracing obscure narratives through the curiosity: is co-existence not an achievement, but an ongoing exercise? A work remapping meaning beyond monumentality through the seven pillars of Bangladesh’s National Martyrs' Memorial.

bare-minimum-cinema

Cinemas from and against sudraverse

Mango Mushaira

An audiopiece born from a gathering held together by peering and mangoes- weaves selfhood and explores gendered experiences of power, domesticity, religion through familial recalls and Mughal Zananas.

Cling, Clang, Clung

A text oscillating between forms of gathering and greece agoras, where rituals of eating, sitting, and sharing meet acts of consumption — propelling and churning thought.

Crazy Balls in the Workspace

Chatters, emerge as refuge and markers of intersection of life and art amidst formulation of works, invoking (un)comfortable thresholds and their form and shape.

Art Collectives as Trojan Spaces: Reimagining Gath...

An essay tracing the history of art collectivisation in Kashmir, from the 1940’s to the now; Navigating amorphousness, performativity, permanence, sanitisation and censoring.

All the World's a Stage

Sketchbooks, mutate and become sites of transition, transcendence, revisiting and recall- thinking about the space between work and rest in artistic life.

Neele Aasman Ke Niche

Sarmad’s Dargah and the graveyard, emerges as a site of resurgence and fertility- intertwining philosophy, oppression, and ecology in defiance of institutional coherence.

Was the Tea Cup Set, Ever the Tea Cup Set?

A cohort of young artists at Jindal University ruminate and extend Aditi's tea cup set from Call #1, transforming it into a metaphor for the sacred, the excess, the voiceless, the (intentionally) obscured and the prohibited in the gender discourse.

Veil/ing

A collaboration between Hekh, Queer Childhoods and A South Asian Queer Pamphlet, exploring the idea of 'veiling' both as a nomenclature and gesture which defines our being through photo performances, rituals, and unfurlings.

This, Here, Now, Alive

A lecture Performance by artist Smriti Rastogi, thinking of the question: “Will the coming year solve the riddle of Mars?" ; holding gaps that language produces; suggesting a new paradigm where the whole communication of the world has to restart.

Radial Minds: Charting Pentapodal Thinking

Lecture Performance by Oorja, Exploring cosmic origins and human narratives, rethinking the “alien” not as something entirely ‘other’ but as both material and concept, reshaping how we perceive life across time and space.

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

A Screening of the film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm by William Greaves, facilitated by Vijai Maia Patchineelam on 24th December, 2024

Implementation of the Artist's Job Description

A gathering at Mayur Vihar studio facilitated by Vijai Maia Patchineelam, conversing about his project "The Artist's Job Description" in collaboration with KIOSK, Belgium.

Amidst Owls, Torpedoes and Serpents

A Colloquium organized on Call #1 by Hekh at India International Center (IIC) in New Delhi. Thinking of institutional fissures, phantoms and graveyards of desire, navigating simultaneous contemporaries, and resonant ferments of desire and co-modellin...

Re:Sonating #1

A gathering on Call #1 at the home studio in Mayur Vihar, extending, discussing, morphing, activating and reflecting on Call #1; Generating a 'stretch' through modifying protocols of presenting and listening.

Social Anatomy of an Institution

Thinking of the sociological (un)grounding to an institution’s cultural formulation; and expanding on the decay and the inherent ontological deficiency within an institution at the core of its inception.

Angst

A video and poem about the sleepful nights before industrialisation and the sleepless nights after capitalism and its impact on human anxieties.

Letter to a Friend

A heartfelt letter to a friend, reminiscing about their days at College of Art, New Delhi; tracing institutional crises, contemplating unresolved questions and lingering memories.

Government College Of Art, Chennai. Kindly Choose....

A deep exploration of the inconsistencies, and shortcomings of the pedagogical system, infrastructure, and historical legacy at the Government College of Art, Chennai.

Book Show-I

Marking a seminal exhibition born out of associative affinities in Jangpura Studio, New Delhi curated by Priyesh Gothwal. Thinking through emerging languages of collaboration, and exchange vis a vis the global capitalist art market.

रौशनी, छिपकली और पतंगा, 9+2=11

A story prompting to think of labels, and what’s truly in a name. A performance, exposing the spectacle of enlightenment. Both, provoking to think of our roles as simultaneous witnesses and performers in dismantling labels, language and knowledge.

(Un)Meshings: Conversation with Studio A68

A candid conversation navigating through disagreements and changing dynamics in a shared space and its inhabitants; finding solace in the sharings, activities, gatherings that stretch the notions of art and practice.

अनटाइटल्ड

Thinking of the stickiness of thoughts, the relationship between notions of being ‘civilized’ and energetic freedom, and the thresholds of adaptability of the ‘modern’ and modernity.

Ballad of an Art Educator: Rant as Format

A work of f(r)iction, critically examining the institutional settings encountered within the arts education space, as a visual artist, and an employee in the art market- navigating the anxieties, fears, and dreams of young and newly-minted art gradua...

Associative Frequencies: A Score in Three Scenes

A score exploring the possible and (un)common relations between sonic dispositions and associative practices and journeys.

Moving with Spaces

A graphic novel and text mapping an extremely personal journey that juxtaposes the rigidity generated by the ritualistic and the ‘mundane’ vis a vis the dynamic nature of spaces;

The Youngest, The Middle, and the Oldest Child: A....

Exploring the behavioral implications of the first few batches of students at a pedagogical institute, from the perspective of a younger twin among three siblings.

SN Elementary

Ruminating on pedagogy and camaraderie at S.N School of Communications in Hyderabad through the analogy of the first wonky pancake- its roughness, inconsistencies and wonderful flavour.

Line and Intervention

A recipe expanding on shared spaces, their boundaries and the intricate dance between human perception and interaction.

Lukewarm Lubricants

A stream of consciousness writing on the shape, temperature, viscosity and synergy of gatherings and how it shape-shifts in the contemporary art milieus of Delhi.

Gulleyball-Moneyball

A game, thinking through how market anxieties shape artistic practices.

Art in the Age of Institutional Reproduction: Mapp...

Mapping an institutional turn to self portraiture in College of Art, New Delhi. Ruminating on colonial lingerings, media fetishes, ultimate ‘isms’, artistic labour, and infrastructural and pedagogical deficits.