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UnMYthU: UnKIND(s) Alternatives 2018

 (A)political, solemnly superficial #unconceptual byproduct for a (con)temporary National Museum.

UnMYthU: UnKIND(s) Alternatives 2018, a series of large-scale drawings on handmade Kozo paper, together with diagrams and instructions pose directions, questions, contracts, and obligations on the audience and performance with Alexa.

‘Mithu Sen explores the in-between spaces of social conventions and interactions through her own devices of ‘radical hospitality, lingual anarchy, counter capitalism, untaboo sexuality and unmonolith identity’. She describes her ongoing UnMYthU project as a ‘byproduct of twenty years of performance’, drawing on her career of making and sharing art. She incorporates poetry, drawing, objects, instructions and performance into her practice and experiments with symbols and language, testing accepted rules and using linguistic meanings, codes and syntax as creative and experimental devices. In particular Sen uses ‘un’ to explore the voids and anomalies of the in-between, describing the device as ‘a non-language narrative trope, a linguistic tool to (un)layer the possible manifestations of my practice’.

Like using (un) as a trope to open tangents of understanding, in a similar manner, Sen explores the idea of artificial intelligence ‘as a trope to enable the manifestation of the process of (un)mything’:

UnMYthU: UnKIND(s) Alternatives (un)myths through the trope of A(I)- artificial intelligence which (un)creates to allow for access and actualization of the void. The tactile byproducts that are exhibited and the performance taking place by each entity engaging with the installation, are both creations of A(I). The pristine surface layer of the painted paper and the words, numbers floating around the surface, together create the space of inbetweeness, a void- where the (un)mything takes place.

projects
m/Other Tongue
Be Beyond Being 2021
Until You.. 2021
Uncatharsis 2020
BERKELEY FOR SALE !! 2020
QR 2020
UnMansplaining 2019
Lunch is cancelled 2019
Unlockdown 2020
Drawings
How to be a SUCKcessful Artist 2019
100 (un)silent ways 2019
grafitti
Sculpture
UnMYthU: UnKIND(s) Alternatives APT9
new media
Mit i sny (Myth and Dreams)2018
UnMYthU
Unlynching 2017
Sounding Drawing
Poetry
BASMATI SARIR BAGAN BA GAAN 1995-2005
Performance
Unline 2017
Installation
Unhome in City IF Angels 2017
We Unfinish each other 2017
I Replace You 2017
Embodied Language 2017
(Left Untold) 2016
Aphasia 2016
Return Gifts: For Sale 2016
MOU (Museum of Unbelongings)2011-2018
Kenopsia 2016
Mis(s)Guide 2016
Tongue that won’t stop wounding 2015
Once upon a sari 2015
Unwor(l)dly 2015
Ahh Taj 2011 – 2015
Nonversation 2015
Border Unseen 2014
I Am a Poet 2013 – 2014
Shop Lifting 2014
I have only one language; it is not mine 2014
No star, No land, No word, No Commitment 2004-2014
Non spinal 2007-2014
Poems Declined 2014
A ° V O I D 2014
Deafening Silence 2013
Same River Twice 2013
Artist: Unknown 2013
Cannibal Lullaby 2013
I am not me 2012
Devoid 2012
In House Adoption 2012
Twinkle Twinkle 2012
For(e)play 2011
I chew, I bite, The Unknown 2010-2011
In Transit 2011
Black Candy (Iforgotmypenisathome) 2010
No thing 2011
Unwanted 2010
Nothing lost in translation 2008
Freemithu 2007-ongoing
Abstract Cabinet 2009
Dropping Gold, Dropping Gold 2009
Me two 2009
I dig,I look down 2008
Half Full 2007
Kamdhenu 2007
Icarus 2006-2007
Indubala and her Unbelongings 2007
All that’s solid melts into air 2006
It’s good to be a queen 2006
Letters on the beach 2006
Drawing Room 2006
Ephemeral Affair 2006
Being Anastacia 2006
Spiritual materialistic 2005
Breathing 2004
Burnt by the sun 2004
Outside the war zone 2004
I hate pink 2003
Maa Jai Boluk 1998
Twilight Zone 2003
No way out 2002
Unbelongings 2001
Can we really look beyond the map 2000
Hair Unbelongings 2000-ongoing