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As a multi-disciplinary artist, my work comes from numerous layers of process that encompass psychedelic gender-performative narrative and phantasmic visions of race, global popular culture and relationship forms in social networking and cyberspace. I play with diverse notions of identity, gender roles, image appropriation and the politics of body migration. I explore issues that affect diverse urban communities as I attempt to showcase a segment of society that refuses to be boxed or generalised. I combine humorous insights into human psyche and the collective larger-than-life entities contained in the visual culture surrounding consumerism; with tropes from India's history and dynamic, organic native cultures. My work integrates various means of communication and artistic production using physical environments, new-media technologies, video, animation, sound, verse composition and interactive narratives, that prompt public engagement, dialogue and reflection.

My twin media are behaviour / performance art and painting.

For me, performance / behaviour art, where my own body, its presence and movement, are the vehicle for time-based action and creative transformation. Performance is my force for application of the manifesto of the moment and state of consciousness to move towards the future - an entelechy that delivers knowledge in a multifocal way.  I myself am manipulated by the momentary multi-disciplinary emergency mind, to create fresh visual portrayal.

My paintings on canvas, paper and other media are a journey where I reimagine the space and flatness of behaviour / performance art. I think of these material artworks, as another ramification” of my larger process where I am able to reimagine my behaviour / performance art across other kinds of scale, imagery and genre to explore problematic existing notions of hospitality, sexuality, communication, and contract. Freed from the more dictatorial performative timeframe of behaviour / performance art, I attempt to deeply charge my imagery erotically and emotionally, so that the work blurs distance and intimacy.

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