Aishwarya Kumar

Aishwarya Kumar

 https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5460-6951
    20212024

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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.

    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

    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):

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

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