Recent Exhibitions: Video Installations

2011  "The Warkari Cycle" (48 mins HD video) single-screen video installation. Direction Lucia King, co-produced with Seasongray films, Pune India (Rajula Shah). Premiered at the “Persistence/Resistance” Documentary Film Festival, London edition 2011, curated by Magic Lantern Foundation, New Delhi.

2010  "To Part and Return" (24 mins, HD video) screened at “Moves International Festival of Movement on Screen” Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool.

2009-10  "To Part and Return" was also exhibited/screened at The Bhavan Centre; Asian Art in London Festival; Artsadmin (London); the "Light Up!" Short Film Festival, in context of “Screen East”, Cambridge; and the Non-Multiplex TV group showroom, London.

This project was made in partnership with Veenapani Chawla, director of the Adishakti Centre, Pondicherry, South India about the practice of the acclaimed dancer/physical performer, Vinay Kumar.

2009  "Operation Infinity" (25 mins SD video) a project distributed online as well as video installation. Collaboration with director/choreographer: Bock & Vincenzi and students of the Laban Dance Centre, London.

2009   "At Play" (17 mins multi-screen video installation) and other AV works, group show, ‘Christmas Contemporaries’ at Collyer Bristow Gallery, London

2009    "Sea Values" (17 mins 35mm) Conference screening at Persistance/Resistance documentary film festival/seminar, Poona India 09, and at the British South Asian Theatre Conference, Exeter University

 
Exhibition of Paintings/ Mixed Media artworks

2008   "In knowledge of ignorance" Solo exhibition of screen-based artworks & drawings incl. the film of the same title. Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Q! Gallery, Scotland.

2008   "Bhakti and the Blues" Audio Visual design project accompanying a theatre performance by the same title. Collaboration with Vayu Naidu theatre company (toured to Edinburgh Festival and other UK-based festivals)

2007   "At Play" (multi-screen installation) Artsadmin, ‘Summer Season’ of Live Art and Screen-based works, London

2005   "Paramontage" British Council, India, exhibition of videos and two dimensional works.

2004   "At Play (version 1)" displayed at Riverside Studios, London & Rang Swarm Golden Jubilee Theatre Festival, New Delhi, based on the work of theatre director, Royston Abel

2004    Four video installation artworks shown at The Apeejay Media Centre, New Delhi, in context of a contemporary review of video art in India.

2004-5 Audio visual display design for ‘Khalsa Cultural Heritage Museum’, Anandpur Sahib, of films and artworks related to Sikh cultural heritage (under chief designers from Design Habit, New Delhi)

2000     Artist-in-residency at Khõj International Artists Workshop, New Delhi

 
Awards / Prizes

2010    University of London, Research Travel Award

2010   British Council “Connections through Culture” Scheme

2009   South East England Arts Council award for project with Adishakti company in India 

2005-7 Mondriaan Foundation, Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten (the Netherlands)
          Kunst en Bedrijf, Amsterdam, Art and Business enterprise scheme award
2001   Scholarship awarded by the Dutch Credit Insurance Company (NCM) 2 years   

2001   Netherlands Embassy in Rome, competitive grant award for residency scheme

 
Films produced before 2007 

NB: Screenings of these projects have included Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Oberhausen Film Festival, San Francisco Short Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Dutch National Film Days (Utrecht), and KunstKanaal TV broadcast, among other festivals.

2006 "Tell Me" A 12 minute video artwork developed from a play script authored by Lucia King

2004 "At Play" A 17 minute three-screen video installation, commissioned by
Roysten Abel directed in collaboration with Smita Bharti

2001-2 "Hide and Seek" A two-part 30-minute art documentary in which Delhi
childrens’ perception of ‘Success & Failure’ is explored

2000 "On the Moon a Tiger" A 30 minute documentary on Hindu ritual and secular
performance traditions in which children play an essential role in India

1999 "The Dark in the Light" A 15 minute DVcam video artwork shot in the Arctic
Commissioned by a Dutch Shipping company, Oceanwide

1997 "Gabriel", (originally 16mm, then 90-minute interactive video installation)
artwork. Commissioned by the Dutch Railways Arts Board.

1997 "Sea Values" (18 minutes/ shot on 35mm film)

 
Performance Projects (directing and curating):

2011 "Pageant of Great Women" (commissioned by director, Anna Birch). I directed/edited a documentary (28 mins, HD) of a theatre production by suffragette playwright, Cecily Hamilton's (1910) in Birch's contemporary re-framing.

2006 "Tell Me" 45-minute studio theatre performance. Supported by the Menagerie
Theatre Company’s Writers’ Development Scheme, the Junction, Cambridge, UK

2005  The Hungry Heart Theatre Festival Curator/ Programmer
Featuring seven plays directed/ authored by leading women playwrights,

Venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

2005 "Love Bytes" Writer/ Director
A performance exploring same sex relationships in an Indian context.
Venue: India Habitat Centre, Delhi

2005 "Khel Tamasha Khel! (Play the Game!)" Co-author/ Production designer
A satire on a cultural entrepreneur who exploits performing artists
Venue: St Stephen’s University, Delhi

2005 Production designer for "Gods Graves and Grandmothers", a music-based
drama based on a book by Namita Gokhale

2004  "Lahore Ki Vekya" Co-director with Smita Bharti
A play dealing with Hindu-Muslim relations during the era of the Partition of
India Venue: St Stephen’s University, Delhi

2004 "Seven Steps around the Fire" by Mahesh Dattani Production designer
A play exploring the social positioning of the ‘Hijra’ communities (the
transsexuals) in India, Venue: the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

2003 The Girl Child educational project Curator/performance director
A 10-day theatre, dance, music and digital arts workshop series, supported
by charities, ‘Casp’ & ‘Plan International’ at ‘Sanskriti Kendra’, Hariyana

Tihar Jail, Delhi Collaboration with Smita Bharti
Working with female inmates and based on their experiences using
collective performance devising processes and verbatim accounts.

 
Consultancy Work  

2004-5 Senior Consultant - Asian Heritage Foundation, New Delhi, promoting the
sustainable development of handcraft and performance heritage from India
by collaboration with Fair Trade organizations in Europe.

2000 Freelance curator - World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam

 
Teaching

Ongoing.  Associate Lecturer Film Production and Theory, University of Surrey, Faculty: Film and Dance

1992-2008
UK
University of Worcester; University College of the Creative Arts, Canterbury;
Leeds University; Laban Centre, London; University of Kent; Cambridge Regional College;
Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London; and Wimbledon College of Art.

India
Delivered 5 courses in digital filmmaking at my own studio for college students and youth with
no formal education from low-income neighbourhoods in New Delhi; The School of Convergence,
University for media and Film New Delhi; Baroda University Fine Arts Faculty; and
St. Stevens University, New Delhi

The Netherlands
Gerrit Rietveld Akademie,Amsterdam; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten; and Eindhoven University