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I Am a Poet 2013 -2014

Tate Modern, London 2013 link
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna 2014
KHOJ, New Delhi 2014

Collected as a series of poems, disappearing bodies of language were compiled and performed into a poetry ...

With the political and social compulsions that infest our demeanor; with the regional, racial and vernacular prejudices that define our ideology, there has been a loss of identity and language. Those moments that exist and are not recorded remain repressed and unheard. Due to the lack of ‘appropriate’ spoken, written words, we remain inadequate in expressing true thoughts,  that leads to a trail of silence. This silence was given voice through my  non-scripted text. Collected as a series of poems, these disappearing bodies of language were compiled into a poetry book for the project, “I Am a Poet”.

Reading the poems in public transformed into an experiment with a spontaneous and imaginary dream language presented through a visual and performative practice as a resistance in search of a new medium of communication. A language: not as rigid and as ‘elite’ with no hint of humiliation or suppression.

People were invited to read non-sense characters from artist’s poetry book and their anonymous voices were collected to create an abstract body that claimed repressed emotional voices and a potential moment of lingual anarchy, a language of the subconscious, a morphed body from a visual to a sonic form.

Never to repeat and never to remember, each word was used only once with the utterances constituting the realm of unknown, of excited wonderment where expressions can be voiced sans inhibitions, presenting a hope to shake the foundations of power structures through engagement and participation.

projects

2023
mOTHERTONGUE
iWITNESS
“I am from there. I am from here”
mOTHER I SPELL YOU WRONG

2022
Until you 206

2021
Be Beyond Being
Until You..

2020
Uncatharsis
BERKELEY FOR SALE !!
QR
Unlockdown

2019
UnMansplaining
Lunch is cancelled
How to be a SUCKcessful Artist
100 (un)silent ways

2018
UnMYthU: UnKIND(s) Alternatives

2017
Unlynching
Sounding Drawing
Unline
Unhome in City IF Angels
We Unfinish each other
I Replace You
Embodied Language
Return Gifts: For Sale

2016
(Left Untold)
Aphasia
Kenopsia
Mis(s)Guide

2015
Tongue that won't stop wounding
Unwor(l)dly
Nonversation

2014
Border Unseen
Shop Lifting
I have only one language; it is not mine
Poems Declined
A ° V O I D

2013
I Am a Poet
Deafening Silence
Same River Twice
Artist: Unknown
Cannibal Lullaby

2012
I am not me
Devoid
In House Adoption
Twinkle Twinkle

2011
MOU (Museum of Unbelongings)
Once upon a sari
Ahh Taj !!
For(e)play
In Transit
No thing

2010
graffiti
Black Candy (Iforgotmypenisathome)
Unwanted

2009
Abstract Cabinet
Dropping Gold, Dropping Gold
Me two

2008
Nothing lost in translation
I dig,I look down

2007
Non spinal
Freemithu 2007-ongoing
Half Full
Kamdhenu
Indubala and her Unbelongings

2006
I chew, I bite, The Unknown
Icarus
All that's solid melts into air
It's good to be a queen
Letters on the beach
Drawing Room
Ephemeral Affair
Being Anastacia

2005
Spiritual materialistic

2004
No star, No land, No word, No Commitment
Breathing
Burnt by the sun
Outside the war zone

2003
I hate pink
Twilight Zone

2002
No way out

2001
Unbelongings

2000
Can we really look beyond the map?
Hair Unbelongings