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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

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