Curriculum vitae
Ali Akbar Mehta (b.1983, Mumbai) is a Transmedia artist, curator, and researcher.
Education and Select Work Experience
- 2019 – ongoing
- Doctoral Researcher, Contemporary Art, Aalto University, School of Art, Design & Architecture, Helsinki, FI
- 2019
- Artistic Producer, m-cult Media Culture Centre, Helsinki, FI
- 2018 – 2020
- Artistic Director, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, FI
- 2015 – 2018
- MA (Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art), Aalto University, Helsinki, FI
- 2002 – 2008
- Co-founder, Lead Animator and Artist, Mareech Animated Design, Mumbai, IN
- 2001 – 2005
- BFA (Honours), Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, IN
- 1998
- GNIIT, National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), Mumbai, IN
Grants and Awards
- 2024
- Taiteen edistämiskeskus Globus Op Start, production grant, working group – Artists with Evidence
- 2024
- Kone Säätiö, exhibition grant, working group – Haihatuksen Henki ry
- 2023
- Kone Säätiö, working & production grant (3 years)
- 2022
- Taiteen edistämiskeskus, working grant (1 year)
- 2021
- Taiteen edistämiskeskus, working grant (1 year)
- 2021
- Helsinki City Grant, working group Museum of Impossible Forms
- 2020
- Kone Säätiö, COVID grant for organisations, working group Museum of Impossible Forms
- 2020
- State Art Prize awarded to Museum of Impossible Forms, by the Ministry of Art and Culture, FI
- 2020
- Taiteen edistämiskeskus, project grant, working group – Museum of Impossible Forms
- 2019
- Tutkijaliitto-palkinto, awarded to Museum of Impossible Forms, by the Finnish Association of Researchers, FI
- 2018
- Kone Säätiö, operational grant, working group – Museum of Impossible Forms, (2 years)
- 2018
- Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, project grant, working group – Museum of Impossible Forms
- 2017
- Aalto University, project grant, 256 Million Colours of Violence
- 2016
- Kone Säätiö, operational grant, working group – Museum of Impossible Forms, (2 years)
Residencies and Research Fellowships
- 2025
- A-i-R: science_technology_society season 3, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
- 2024
- Research Fellow: After School part II, CAD+SR, Nairobi, KE
- 2024
- A-i-R: European Media Art Platform (EMAP), Werklietz, Halle, DE
- 2023-24
- Research Fellow: After School part I, CAD+SR, Tire, TU
- 2023
- Research fellow: Technologies of Critical Conscientization, Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research together with Casa do Povo, São Paolo, BR
- 2022
- Research fellow: Commonplaces and Entanglements VII, Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Spoleto, IT
- 2021
- A-i-R: Titanik Artist Residency, Turku, FI
- 2020
- A-i-R: Maunula Commons, m-cult, Helsinki, FI
- 2018
- A-i-R: To Participate in the Archive, ARTEL 2018, TIFA Working Studios, Pune, IN
- 2012
- A-i-R: SPACE 118, Mumbai, IN
Solo Exhibitions
- 2025
- Purgatory EDIT: The Liberation Archives of Orphaned Cyborgs, Project 88, Mumbai, IN
- 2024
- Purgatory EDIT: The war that is coming is not the last one – part II, Transmediale Studio, Berlin, DE
- 2024
- Purgatory EDIT: The Doomscroll Archive, Speculum Artium, Ljubljana, SL
- 2020
- Is there a room with just a colour?, Myymälä2, Helsinki, FI
- 2017
- Limitations of Liability, Mumbai Assembly and Harkat Studios, Mumbai, IN
- 2016
- 256 Million Colours of Violence, Third Space, Helsinki, FI
- 2014
- SITE: STAGE: STRUCTURE, Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, IN
- 2012
- Of Men and Supermen, India Art Festival, presented by TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
- 2011
- The Ballad of The War that Never Was, and other Bastardized Myths, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
Performance
- 2023
- Conflictorium, ETMU Days 2023, Jyväskylä University, Jyväskylä, FI
- 2022
- Narrating WAR, Maunulatalo, Helsinki, FI
- 2021
- Ballad of the Lost Utopian Meadow, a series of 3 performances in collaboration with Vidha Saumya, varialambo, and Joss Allen, as part of Aikakoneita Ja Utopiotia: kotinpaluu, kaukokaipuu, Elinehtoja (Time Machine and Utopias: Wanderlust, Lifelines, Homecoming), curated by Hanna Johansson, Ainola Museum, Visavuori Museum, and Tarvaspää Museum, FI
- 2021
- Narrating WAR / Habitat 1, 4 performances in collaboration w/ varialambo, in ‘Reciprocities’, curated by Christine Langinauer, Vantaa Art Museum ARTSI, Vantaa, FI
- 2020
- Narrating WAR, MOBILITIES, curated by Leena Kela, New Performance Festival, Turku, FI
- 2020
- Glitchverse, Souja/Shelter Festival 2020, curated by Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, Ksenia Yurkova, Anastasia Vepreva, Helsinki (online)
- 2019
- Narrating WAR, Relational Figures, Myymälä2, Helsinki, FI
- 2019
- direct-contact// feedback, w/ Vidha Saumya, Pixelache Festival 2019: Breaking the fifth Wall, Helsinki, FI
- 2018
- Narrating WAR, Experimental Event VI – La Torre de Babel, curated by Anna Jensen and Andrea Coyotzi Borja, Valimo Hall of Palmgren Conservatory, Pori, FI
- 2018
- Narrating WAR, Carincarina, Nova Gorica, SL
- 2018
- Narrating WAR, Performance LAB VII, curated by Vishnu Vardhani Rajan, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, FI
- 2018
- Cyborg Archives: GarbageInGarbageOut, TIFA Working Studios, Pune, IN
- 2018
- Cyborg Archives: Can Archives Speak?, TIFA Working Studios, Pune, IN
- 2018
- Narrating WAR, TIFA Working Studios, Pune, IN
- 2017
- Narrating WAR, Memory of War, curated by Heidi Hänninen, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, FI
- 2017
- Narrating WAR, Clark House, Mumbai, IN
- 2016
- Where does poetry nest?, curated by Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Pispala Memorial, Tampere, IN
- 2016
- null.void, for Chimurenga: Pan-African Space Station, curated by Ahmed Al-Nawas, Kallio Public Library, Helsinki, IN
Select Group Exhibitions
- 2025
- EMAP exhibition, Transmediale Studio, (with Silent Green & Transmediale), Berlin, DE
- 2023
- Cruel Radiance, curated by Harri Palviranta and Marko Karo, Backlight Festival 2023, Gallery Saskia, Photographic Center Nykyakia, Gallery Koppelo, Tampere art Museum, Tampere, FI
- 2022
- Abdication of the Geniuses Festival, Oksasenkatu 11 + Maunulatalo, Helsinki, FI
- 2022
- Into the Void, curated by Farbod Fakharzadeh, for Ars Pori, Pori, FI
- 2022
- Locus of Control, curated by Abhinit Khanna and Anoushkaa Bhatnagar, for House of Creativity, Mumbai, IN
- 2021
- Data Vitality: Soft infrastructures and Economies of Knowledge, Aalto University, Helsinki, FI
- 2021
- Reboot Me Softly ↻, 19th edition of Piksel Festival 2021, Bergen, NO
- 2021
- Central Park Archives, produced by m-cult, Maunulatalo, Helsinki, FI
- 2021
- Aikakoneita Ja Utopiotia: kotinpaluu, kaukokaipuu, Elinehtoja (Time Machine and Utopias: Wanderlust, Lifelines, Homecoming), curated by Hanna Johansson, Ainola Museum, Visavuori Museum, and Tarvaspää Museum, FI
- 2021
- To Err is Human, curated by Anna Ruth, Mänttä Kuvataideviikot, Mänttä, FI
- 2021
- Reciprocities, curated by Christine Langinauer, Vantaa Art Museum ARTSI, Vantaa, FI
- 2020
- Meadow, curated by Taru Elfving, Fiskars Village, FI
- 2020
- A Tapestry of Time, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
- 2019
- Making Space, curated by Saloni Doshi, Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
- 2018
- No Corners, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
- 2018
- Assembly of Access, TIFA, Pune, IN
- 2017
- Partizaning Maunula, Maunulatalo, Maunula, Helsinki, FI
- 2017
- OUT 2, Research Pavilion: The Utopia of Access, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
- 2017
- Ateria/The Meal, URB 2017 + Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
- 2017
- IS/NOT: Sculpture for the Post-Truth Era, Aalto University Learning Centre, Helsinki, FI
- 2016
- Immersion 2016, Aalto University, Espoo, FI
- 2016
- Where Does Poetry Nest?, curated by Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Galleria Emil, Tampere, FI
- 2016
- Space Invaders IV: Heterotopia, Espoo, FI
- 2016
- SOAK, D/func.t, Helsinki, FI
- 2016
- *Whose History is it anyway?, Aalto University, Espoo, FI
- 2015
- Cisspace: Construct(ed.), Otaniemi Recycling Center, Espoo, FI
- 2014
- Infinite, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
- 2013
- Small is Beautiful – II, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
- 2013
- Beyond the Canvas, curated by Kalpana Shah and Sapna Kar, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
- 2013
- Tagore Lost and Found, curated by Bina Sarkar Ellias, IndiaBulls Art Gallery and Auction House, New Delhi, IN
- 2013
- Equilibrium, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
- 2012
- Synergy, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
- 2012
- Small is Beautiful, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
- 2010
- Three New Voices: Dimensions in Time & Space, Art Heritage, New Delhi, IN
- 2010
- April Salon, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, IN
- 2010
- Evolve, TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, IN
- 2009
- Gems of India, Unicorn Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
- 2009
- India on Canvas, charity auction, New Delhi, IN
- 2008
- The Kohinoor Selection, Unicorn Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
- 2008
- Art for Justice and Peace, Sabrang, Mumbai, IN
- 2008
- Art Smart, Mumbai, and Delhi, IN
- 2007
- India on Canvas, charity auction, Mumbai, IN
- 2007
- Celebrating India, Treo Foundation, Delhi-Calcutta-Bangalore-Mumbai-New York
Curatorial Work
- 2024
- Co-curator: HAIHATUS25, Haihatus Art Center, Joutsa, Finland
- 2023
- Project curator: Agonistic Intelligence/s (or another AI/s), Summer school in collaboration with Museum of Impossible Forms (MIF) and Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) for Helsinki Biennale 2023: New Directions May Emerge, Helsinki, FI
Public Lecture I: Dalida Benfield and Christopher Bratton - Deschooling Art and Its Archives
Public Lecture II: Sinthujan Varatharajah - Who are Museums for? On Goeers and Absentees
Public Lecture III: Annet Dekker - Politics of Access within Archives as Artistic Praxis
- 2023
- Co-curator (via Museum of Impossible Forms): New Directions May Emerge, Helsinki Biennale 2023, curated by Joasia Kysia, Helsinki, FI
- 2022
- Project curator: Archives as Contemporary Object X, podcast series w/ Party Office b2b Fadescha, documenta fifteen, Kassel, DE
Ep 01: History as Tools of the State, Memory as Art of the Stateless, w/ Farbod Fakharzadeh
Ep 02: Memory Work and Inauthentic Archives, w/ Farbod Fakharzadeh
Ep 03: Decolonial Media Aesthetics - part 1, w/ Maria Dalida Benfield
Ep 04: Decolonial Media Aesthetics - part 2, w/ Maria Dalida Benfield
Ep 05: A Museum for A People, w/ Hudda Kahireh
Ep 06: Problematics of Ethnic Museums in the Postcolony, w/ Hudda Kahireh
- 2021-2022
- Curatorial advisor: Party Office, New Delhi, IN
- 2021
- Project curator: How to Work Together? Extended notes on collaboration, part of a collaboration between Museum of Impossible Forms + Platform, in ‘20 Years of Platform Festival’, Vaasa, FI
- 2021
- project curator: Impossible Reader 2020, How to Work Together: Seeking models of solidarity and alliance, (ed.) Aiava, Emily & Aiava, Raine. (pub.) Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, FI.
Episode 01 Shubhangi Singh
Episode 02 Zahrah Ehsan
Episode 03 Surabhi Nadig
Episode 04 Vishnu Vardhani Rajan
- 2021
- Organiser: Touching/Transforming, Seminar, Cluster for Critical Artistic Research, Aalto University, FI
- 2021
- Working group: What Should Art Institutions Do Now?, Culture Lab Europe – Spaces for Solidarity, (online)
- 2021
- Peer support: Anti-Caste Archive, Party Office, New Delhi, IN
- 2020
- Supporting curator: In-Between, HIAP Summer Residency 2020, Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP), Helsinki, FI
- 2019
- Programme facilitator: Network Effects, M-cult, Oodi Library, Helsinki, FI
- 2019
- Event coordinator and Interviewer: Vidisha Fadescha: Party, a tool for Care – curated by Ali Akbar Mehta, part of Today Is Our Tomorrow Festival, organised by PUBLICS, Helsinki, FI
- 2016
- Curator: MATERIAL///IMMATERIAL, A: SPACE, Espoo, FI
- 2016
- Co-curator: SOAK, D/func.t, Helsinki, FI
Artist Talks / Conferences
- 2024
- Artist Talk: Countering Archival Fascism: Moving from technopolitical regimes to technodiverse cosmologies, deCYPher lab, BioArt Society, Helsinki, FI
- 2024
- Panelist: Where to start when everything is urgent – intersectionalities, priorities and empathy, Stop Hatred Now! Festival, UrbanApa, Helsinki (online)
- 2024
- Discussion Series: Ec(h)o Effect: Conversations on War and Environment, with Colin Greer & Ines Montavlao (mod.), Artists with Evidence (online)
Conversation #1: From Urgency to Possibility
Conversation #2: Resilience Narratives: Solutions for a War-torn Environment
Conversation #3: Transformative Potential in War and Environmental Crisis
Conversation #4: Artistic Narratives of Environmental Consequences in Warfare
Conversation #5: Art+Science as a Catalyst for Change
Conversation #6: Circular Economies, Coping Strategies, and Artistic Responses to Conflict
- 2023
- Keynote lecture: Curating Across Cultures, ARTIVAL RE:CONNECT, Globe Art Point, FI
- 2023
- Panel Moderator: Collective and community-based art practices and their political potential, Together Again Festival, Finnish Institutes (Benelux, UK + Ireland, Madrid, New York), the Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute, and Institut Finlandais, Oodi Helsinki, FI
- 2023
- Artist Talk: Archiving in the Age of Data, Power and Violence, Casa do Povo, São Paolo, BR
- 2023
- Artist Talk: The Urgency of Asking Questions, Transmediale, Berlin, DE
- 2022
- Guest Speaker: The Politics of Curating, Platform for Feminist Leadership, UrbanApa (online)
- 2022
- Artist talk: Burn all the books that call you the unknown: Radical Archives, Party Office b2b Fadescha, documenta fifteen, Kassel, DE
- 2022
- Panelist: How to work together – tools and practices for transgressional collective work, Stop Hatred Now! Festival, UrbanApa, Helsinki (online)
- 2021
- Panelist: Decolonisation in the arts and cultural fields, part of ‘In Conversation with the Finnish Institutes’ moderated by Monica Gathuo, The Finnish Institute UK+Ireland, (online)
- 2021
- Artist Talk: Central Park Archives: Access, commons, and networks of care, moderated by m-cult and invited speaker Annet Dekker, part of Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities Spring 2021, Maunulatalo, Helsinki (online)
- 2021
- Artist Talk: Mobility and its Discontents: Internationalism, Mobility & Borders, Hangö Teatrträff, (online)
- 2020
- Artist Talk: Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2 Readings with Annet Dekker, and Susanna Ånäs and Ali Akbar Mehta, Rehearsing Hospitalities, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Helsinki (online)
- 2020
- Panelist: CreaTures (Creative Practices for Transformational Futures), Aalto University, Helsinki (online)
- 2020
- Panelist: New Standards, Stop Hatred Now! Festival, UrbanApa, Helsinki (online)
- 2020
- Artist Talk: Towards a New Internet, In conversation with Palash Mukhopadhyay, Myymälä2, Helsinki
- 2020
- Artist Talk: Violence in Finnish Society, In conversation with Arvind Ramachandran, Myymälä2, Helsinki
- 2020
- Artist Talk: Digital Creativity and Entanglement, In conversation with Timo Tuhkanen, Myymälä2, Helsinki
- 2020
- Artist Talk: Is there a room with just a colour? In conversation with Camelo Ramiro, Myymälä2, Helsinki
- 2019
- Guest Speaker: Notes for Radical Diversity, Helsinki Art Museum HAM, Helsinki
- 2019
- Panelist: Resistance and Re-imagining Alternatives, Nordic Decolonial Workshop, Center for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN), Helsinki
- 2018
- Guest Speaker: Re: Musing the Museum, Part II, Kiasma International Museum, Helsinki
- 2018
- Guest Speaker: Maunula Remix, m-cult, Maunulatalo, Helsinki, FI
- 2018
- Artist Talk: Congratulations, the space has been invaded: NOW WHAT?, Space Invaders VI, Helsinki, FI
- 2017
- Panelist: Decolonial Dreaming, Urbanapa 2017, Atenuim Museum, Helsinki
- 2017
- Artist Talk: The Urgency of Asking Questions, in conversation with Kevin Lobo, Piramal Museum, Mumbai
- 2018
- Artist Talk: Memory and the Maximum City, Godrej India Culture Lab, Mumbai
- 2014
- Artist Talk: FOLKARCHIVE, in conversation with Sumesh Sharma; moderated by Latika Gupta, Dr Bhau Daji Lad City Museum, Mumbai
Select Teaching / Lectures
- 2023
- Guest lecturer: Cyber Realities, Hybridity, and the Users (of Archives), Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA), Aalto University, Helsinki
- 2022
- Guest lecturer: Who Watches Whom?, Art History programme, UNIARTS, Helsinki, FI
- 2021
- Guest lecturer: A small introduction to the history of art from the Indian Subcontinent, w/ Vidha Saumya, UNIARTS, Helsinki, FI
- 2021
- Guest lecturer: Archives as Witness, Archives as knowledge Systems, Darpan 2021, Symbiosis School For Liberal Arts (SSLA) Pune (online)
- 2020
- Guest Lecturer and Mentor: Kuvan Kevät 2020, Exhibition Laboratory, University of Arts Helsinki, FI
- 2020
- Guest lecturer: Archiving & the Curatorial Function, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, (online)
- 2020
- Workshop: Central Park Archives: Collective Authorship, M-cult, Maunulatalo, Helsinki
- 2020
- Guest Lecturer: Surrender? Surrender, Exhibition Laboratory, University of the Arts Helsinki, Helsinki, FI
- 2018
- Guest Speaker: Cyber Archives, Die Schule der Archaeutopie in conversation with Ali Akbar Mehta, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna
- 2018
- Guest Lecturer: Archiving: Histories of the Present, Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA), Aalto University, Helsinki
- 2018
- Workshop: A Common Sense Manifesto of Cooking Practices for Artists, Aalto University, Espoo, FI
- 2011-14
- Guest Lecturer: Whistling Woods International Institute of Film, Communication & Media Arts, Mumbai, IN
Select Publications
- 2024
- Review: Processual (re)presentations of ‘knowing’ without beginning(s) nor end(ings). In V. Saumya & E. Rahmati (Eds.), NO NIIN, 23.
- 2023
- Journal article: The Politics of Togetherness: Beyond the integration infrastructure of State and institutional apparatus. In Z. Karimi, et. al. (Eds.), Rethinking Integration: Challenging Oppressive Practises and Pointing to Ways Forward. Volume 09, Migration Institute of Finland, ISBN 978-952-7399-37-8
- 2023
- Catalog text: The Boycean double-bind: Exquisite Tension as a pedagogy of free play. In 30 Works from the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, P Karttunen et al. (Eds.), Saastamoinen Foundation. ISBN 978-952-69029-1-3
- 2023
- Catalog text: A rhythmic play of possibilities in time: Obliquo Policromo as a holder of existential potentialities. In 30 Works from the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, P Karttunen et al. (Eds.), Saastamoinen Foundation. ISBN 978-952-69029-1-3
- 2023
- Catalog text: A tessellated life: Space Structures as a philosophy of perseverance. In 30 Works from the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, P Karttunen et al. (Eds.), Saastamoinen Foundation. ISBN 978-952-69029-1-3
- 2023
- Book chapter: On the Edge of the Re(lation)al. In Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás & Marianne Schädler (Eds.), Beyond Matter, Within Space: Curatorial and Art Mediati
- 2022
- Interview: On Recognising the moment of Hope: Speaking in Echoes with Hiwa K., In V. Saumya & E. Rahmati (Eds.), NO NIIN, 15.
- 2022
- Review: Who Watches Whom? Ruminations on power, gaze, and field through Pivi Takala’s Close Watch. In V. Saumya & E. Rahmati (Eds.), NO NIIN, 12.
- 2022
- Article: Bearing Witness: Articulating an Archival Practice. In Unstable capitalism, Tiede ja Edistys [Science & Progress], No.1-2(2022)
- 2021
- Journal article: Touching/Transforming: Notes Towards Collective Critical Artistic Research Practices and Processes. (with Bäckman, F., Close, R., Godin, M-A., Kallio-Tavin, M., Mehta, A. A., Qureshi, A., & Sadatizarrini, S.) Research in Arts and Education, 4/2021, December. Aalto University. ISSN 2670-2142
- 2021
- Book chapter: Generating (an)other economy: Working together at Museum of Impossible Forms. In E. Aiava & R. Aiava (Eds.), How to Work Together: Seeking models of solidarity and alliance (pp. 149–176). Museum of Impossible Forms. ISBN: 978-952-94-4840-1
- 2021
- Book chapter: Ääniä Marginaalista: Museum of Impossible Forms Kontulassa [Voicing the Margins: Museum of Impossible Forms]. In A. Rastas & L. Koivunen (Eds.), Marginaaleista Museoihin [From Margins to Museums] (pp. 259-265). Vastapaino. ISBN 978-951-768-889-5
- 2021
- Review: A longing for something written in memory: Library as Archive as Excavation Site. In V. Saumya & E. Rahmati (Eds.), NO NIIN, 1.
- 2021
- Book chapter: Museum of Impossible Forms ja antirasistisen kulttuurituatannon haasteet [Museum of Impossible Forms and the challenges of antiracist cultural production]. In S. Keskinen, M. Seikkula, & F. Mkwesha (Eds.), Rasismi, valta ja vastarinta [Racism, power and resistance] (pp. 221-224). Gaudeamus. ISBN 978-9-5234-5107-0
- 2020
- Book chapter: The Shape of Museums to Come. In Schnittpunkt & J Baur (Eds.), Das Museum der Zukunft: 43 Neue beiträge zur diskussion über die zukunft des museums [The Museum of the Future. 43 New Contributions to the Discussion about the Future of the Museum] (pp. 189-193). Transcript Verlag. ISBN: 978-3-8394-5270-7
- 2020
- Curatorial text: Processing In-Between(ness), In M. Savallampi & A. A. Mehta (Eds.) In Between HIAP summer Residency publication (pp. 7-12). Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP).
- 2020
- Book chapter: SAFE{R}: Evolving the Conditions for Collaboration. In Six years in the Third Space. Third Space (online).
- 2020
- Curatorial text: Who is Welcome? – Thinking Hospitality as Museum of Impossible Forms. In Y Billimore & J Koitela (Eds.) Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2 (pp. 109-111). Archive Books. ISBN 9783948212438
- 2020
- Text: A Cyber Archive of Questions. In R. Rajiv (Ed.) cohabitant/mutants, Restricted Fixations #1
- 2019
- Curatorial text: How to be hospitable without being a motel: Thinking Hospitalities. In Y. Billimore & J. Koitela (Eds.) Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 1 (pp. 57-65). Archive Books. ISBN 978394821215
- 2019
- Curatorial text: Atlas of Lost Beliefs (for Insurgents, Citizens, & Untitled Bodies). Museum of Impossible Forms.
- 2019
- Book chapter: To Not Wait for the Archive: Home and Labour mired in the complications of Invisibalisation. In S. Mahbouba, P. Jallili & E. Lagerspetz (Eds.), The Home Issue, Visual Culture and Contemporary Art Journal #5, Aalto University.
- 2018
- Text: Colours of Violence. In N. Adajania (Ed.), AROOP III - Totems & Taboos. Raza Foundation.
- 2018
- Journal article: Cyber Archive: Archiving as a sustainable counter-hegemonic practice. In A. Poddar & N. Desai (Eds.), Inside/Outside, Hakara Journal, #3
- 2018
- MA Thesis: Cyber Archive: Being and Doing Knowledge. Aalto University.
- 2018
- Editorial text: FOOD and Other Practices at the Arthouse. In A. A. Mehta & V. Saumya (Eds.), Visual Culture and Contemporary Art Journal #4. Aalto University
- 2017
- Article: Locating: The Museum of Impossible Forms. In Kone Foundation Boldness Blog.
- 2017
- Interview: Border Crossing: Reshaping the Agency of Struggle. In CuMMA Papers Publication Series. Aalto University.
- 2017
- Journal article: The Photons of Politics: Footnotes for a New History. In S. Boynick (Ed.), RAB-RAB Journal for Political and Formal Inquiries in Art, #4.1 (pp. 67-79), RAB-RAB Press.
- 2015
- Exhibition essay: No one at the ceremony remembers to mention the artist. for Vidha Saumya’s exhibition, No one at the ceremony remembers to mention the artist. Third Space.
- 2014
- Artist book: Site: Stage: Structure. StudioVAAK.
- 2011
- Poem: A body split in two, In B. Sarkar (Ed.), International Gallerie: Journal of Contemporary art, issue 30. Mumbai.
Public projects / Commissions
- 2015
- TRINITY: Godrej Legacy Park Silos, Godrej One, Mumbai, IN
Positions of Trust and Memberships
- 2021 – ongoing
- Member, Catalysti, Helsinki, FI
- 2021 – 2022
- Board Member, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Helsinki, FI
- 2021 – 2023
- Board Member, TKOK ry, the supervising body of Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, FI
- 2021
- Board Chair, Kiila ry, Helsinki, FI
- 2019 – ongoing
- Research Member, Cluster of Critical Artistic Research (CCARE), Aalto University, Helsinki, FI
- 2019 – ongoing
- Member, Party Office, New Delhi, IN
- 2019 – 2021
- Board Member, Kiila ry, Helsinki, FI
- 2016 – ongoing
- Founding member, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, FI
- 2016 – 2017
- Member, Third Space, Helsinki, FI