Artistic Director + Coordinator • Desire Machine Collective + Periferry • female

Born 1975 Shillong, India, she lives and works in Guwahati/Shillong
Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda
In 2004 she set up Desire Machine Collective with Mriganka Madhukaillya. Assuming their name and theoretical disposition from Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, by French Deleuze and Guattari, Desire Machine Collective seeks to disrupt the neurotic symptoms that arise from constricting capitalist structures with healthier, schizophrenic cultural flows of desire and information. They employ film, video, photography, and multimedia installation in their works.
In 2007 she co-initiated Periferry, an alternative artist-led space situated on the M. V. Chandardinga, a ferry docked on the Brahmaputra River in Guwahati. Her work has been shown at in a number of group exhibitions including, Everyone Agrees: It’s About to Explode at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, India Pavilion, Venice (2011); Indian Highway IV, MAC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon and Indian Highway V, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome (2011); Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin (2010); Solomon Guggenheim Museum New York (2012), Intense Proximity, the 3rd edition of the La Triennale at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, curated by Okwui Enwezor (2012) and Experimenta India: London Indian Film Festival at the Tate Modern London (2012). Walking Drifting Dragging, New Museum, (2013), [UN]NATURAL LIMITS at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (2013). A Solo Show, Noise Life at Galerie Max Mueller, Mumbai and Project 88, Mumbai. INVOCATION exhibited at Krishna in the Garden of Assam: The Cultural Context of an Indian textile at the British Museum, London in 2016.

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