zeropowercut

zeropowercut, also known as Piyush Kashyap, makes art to talk about how caste is coded in the real. Their work involves documentary and aural images, sayings, drawings, image-sculptures, objects, and scenes. Their practice is an attempt to realise the transformational bahujan proposition of becoming other. He is a self taught artist and independent researcher with prior training in audio-video production and eight years of experience working as a film technician prior to starting their anti-caste arts practice. As an artist, zeropowercut makes individual as well as collaborative work, often turning their studio and resources into sites of research and development for collective Dalit-Bahujan discourse. zeropowercut is based in old city of Patna-Saheb, Bihar, India  

zeropowercut has been shown/screened/published at/by: 1Shantiroad(IN), Tata Institute of Social Sciences(IN), Film and Television Institute of India(IN), A Very Deep Surface—JKK(IN), Mumbai Academy of Moving Image Festival—The New Medium w/CAMP(IN), Conflictorium(IN) w/Stroom Den Haag(NL), Serendipity Arts Festival(IN), India Art Fair(IN), Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art(IN), Vadehra Art Gallery(IN), Goethe Institut w/Maraa (IN), International Studio and Curatorial Program (NY-US), and Athens Art Book Festival(GR).