Aishwarya Kumar
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Aishwarya Kumar is a PhD candidate in Culture Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and an FCT scholarship holder. A practice-based researcher, she is positioned at the intersection of corporeality, artistic research, political philosophy and cognition, currently examining practices of curiosity in contemporary conditions. With a B. Des in Information Arts and Information Design from India and an MA in Media Performance Studies from the Netherlands, her practice as an artist-curator departs from and revolves around questions concerning systems that examine and order the world – from form to practice –through performance. She specifically is interested in how bodies and the perceived hideousness of movement produce meaning, counter-normative spaces, relations, cultures, and knowledge. Her recent work and writings are available through Junctions Journal (2021), ARIAS, Amsterdam (2022), 4K/less (2023), Contemporânea (2024), ArteCapital (2024). She is on the advisory board of SPHERE and has an ongoing curatorial collaboration with Instytut B61. She recently curated the performance-ritual Orin Ifê by Nany Triangulo within the exhibition 'Making is Colder Than Capital' at Atelier Concorde.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land

Education/Academic qualification

Master, Media, Arts, and Performance Studies, Utrecht University

Award Date: 30 Sept 2021

Bachelor, Information Arts and Information Design Practices, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Award Date: 29 Jul 2016

Keywords

  • B Philosophy (General)
  • performance studies
  • new materialism
  • philosophy of science
  • continental philosophy
  • GN Anthropology
  • LB2361 Curriculum
  • BH Aesthetics
  • P Philology. Linguistics
  • N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR

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