Face to face by Gigi Scaria, 2010, digital print on archival paper (courtesy of the artist)
Scaria is a VisionMix Associate Artist.
VisionMix is an international network of artists, filmmakers, curators and scholars working in lens-based media including artists’ moving image, essay filmmaking and photography. Founded in 2014 as a curatorial collective by Lucia King and Rashmi Sawhney, VisionMix’s associates are based in India, Hong Kong and the UK.
For further details and ongoing projects, please see visionmix.info
Apparitions
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MIRAJ 7.2, a special issue on South Asian Moving Image.
Guest edited by Lucia Imaz King and Rashmi Sawhney, this journal edition offers a critical review of artists' moving image produced in South Asia. Its pre-histories in experimental documentary film are also discussed regarding their impact on contemporary art practices in and beyond the region. The issue includes a collection of articles and reviews with contributions from Nancy Adajania, Behroze Gandhy, Avijit Mukul Kishore, Adnan Madani, Khaushik Bhaumik, Shai Heredia and Nicole Wolf, among others.
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ISSN: 20456298
Online ISSN: 20456301
Apparitions
In 2024 and 2025 I curated a series of symposia/screenings held at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (CSM) under the overarching title, Apparitions. The third edition of Apparitions will be Art that Moves, taking place in April 2026 at CSM and University of Brighton. Previous editions were: Citizenship, Kinship and the Making of Belonging (2025) and International Artists-led Networks (2024). As Director of VisionMix, the collaboration with CSM, recently joined by partner, University of Brighton, has enabled us to bring international artists, critics, curators and their recent projects, to connect with communities of artists and academics worldwide.
In 2024 the programme, the Artist-led networks event hosted Gigi Scaria, (artist, New Delhi); Avijit Mukul Kishore (documentary filmmaker, Mumbai); Isaac Leung, (Hong Kong curator-artist); Yarli Alison (artist, UK-Hong Kong based); Whisky Chow (artist/performer/filmmaker, UK/China); Rashmi Devi Sawney (VisionMix co-director,) and myself, also screening the works of Liao Jiaming, Wang Jun-Jieh, Kayla Nicole Pun and Rob Crosse as part of a queer Southeast-Asia-focused sub-programme.
In 2025, working with co-curators, Isaac Leung and Javier Olivera (artist/ filmmaker), the 2nd edition, Citizenship Kinship and the Making of Belonging focused on artistic methods in the context of fragile, precarious and mobile citizenship in the artists’ countries of production
For the April 2026 programme, Art that Moves will spotlight ‘migration and mobilities’. Recognising the power of art to open up spaces that explore differences of art worlds, of geopolitics, and the fantastic, experienced as these migrate from one culture to another, we will consider questions around translocational belonging and spaces of art production that migrate context and meaning. Confirmed speakers/presenters are to be announced soon.
Image credit: Still from the film Schuld | Guilt by Gonzalo Egurza, 2022 (21´14”)