Garima Gupta
Garima Gupta (b. 1985) is a researcher and artist based in New Delhi, India. She documents micro-stories and events considered tenuous in ecological wars. In brining these flotsams of ecological wreckage, her work invites us to witness as this refuse transforms into molecules of loss, migration, wants, imaginations, obsessions, frivolity and attachment - beckoning a change with and within, for a radically robust future of our ecosphere.
Her fieldwork confides in drawing, film making and writing as a petition for documenting fringe narratives and critical auditing of archives - speculating, fabulating - that which is not uttered and seldom imagined. Recent sites of her inquiry include Ladakh, Sikkim, Kalimpong, Darjeeling and Spiti Valley. Geographies of past fieldwork include Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Thailand where she had been documenting trade in wildlife.
Her 5-year long research project based on fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asian archipelago culminated into a solo show, ‘Filed Under: a/muse/um’
at Tarq, Mumbai in 2020. Her group shows include, Our Conspiring Hosts (Delhi, India), NAYA ANJOR (Delhi, India), EVENT, MEMORY, METAPHOR (Mumbai, India), A BEAST, A GOD AND A LINE at Dhaka Art Summit (Bangladesh), Para Site (Hong Kong) and Museum of Modern Art (Poland), Kunsthall Trondheim (Norway). She was the Visiting Artist Fellow at the Mittal Institute, Harvard University in 2023. Her works are in the collection at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi.
Pravah Khandekar
Pravah Khandekar is an artist and composer originally from India. Pravah holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Sir JJ School of Art, Bombay, India, and a Master’s in Design Studies from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. His practice centers in literary, performative and image making practices, mediating international relations, cinema, and critical theory.
Initiated into music by his first teacher, his mother, he later received intensive vocal training under Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar within the Dagar-vaani lineage of Dhrupad. He also pursued training under Vidushi Veena Sahasrabuddhe and is presently mentored by Pandit Uday Bhawalkar. His current projects operate across multiple sonic genealogies, engaging with contemporary jazz and experimental practices, Black American music, Arabic
and Klezmer lineages. He was selected to be a part of the renowned Global Musicians Workshop at the SilkRoad (Boston), and has collaborated and shared stages with artists including Kala Ramnath, Jamey Haddad, Edward Perez, and members from the Berklee College of Music, Boston Meshk and Harvard Music Department.
His performances are curated at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Cambridge, USA), International Film Festival (Calcutta), Prithvi Theater (Bombay), Short Encounters Festival (Greece), MIT Media Lab, and New England Conservatory (Boston).