The unsettled forms of the Third Body act as a parenthesis within coherent, established frameworks. It embodies fluctuating complexities; it destabilises notions of reality and perception. It exaggerates irreversible fractures and tensions born out of structural defaults. Rather than delimiting the amorphous and contingent nature of power, representation, and autonomy, it operates as an eccentric force moving through multiple directive channels, perversely embedded within the matrix of ecological and existential schemas. Third Bodies_Essay

The series explores archival notions surrounding heritage ruins, dioramas, and relics spanning natural history, maritime and anthropological museums, natural and artificial water bodies, and other ecological and geological sites.

In a diverse context, artworks titled ‘Persisting Threads’ are imagined with failed, broken, dismantled, diseased, malleable, and inherently fragile components. These elements are arranged on closed and open shelves that are spread, fallen, trapped, blocked, erased, evacuated, and repurposed. Many of these objects are named after asteroids that slowly orbit the Earth, including 16 Psyche, the only metal asteroid we found in Earth's orbit. Through this approach, the artist seeks to prompt viewers to look beyond the surface, as the names provide an identity, akin to skin, to the unknown, the yet-to-be-discovered, or things we may think we don't know but actually may be familiar with.

Through personal and societal tensions in this body of work, the artist draws correlations between the biological and natural aspects of growth, decay, and death, making them visible within the context of one’s own body - flesh, skin, and debility as chronic elements of malleability. Here, nature is not viewed as an external source but as a multidirectional expansion of various Meta+bio+techno+cosmo logical threads that manifest life. The intention is to invite contemplation beyond the immediate visual experience and delve into the infinite intricate layers of existence, system errors, and dysfunctions concerning debility and aggressive sophistication in a fast phase, acknowledging both vulnerability and resilience.

Title: 3691 Bede
a resin mold consisting of a disabled micro SD card, a moth, a mobile circuit board, a coin featuring Jasmin flower, An Indian postal stamp featuring Bal Gangadhar Tilak, an earring made out of animal bone, a Coin commemorating Jawaharlal Nehru, A crashed pen drive, currency, mushroom, resin

Dimension L.4.13inch W.3.22inch H.2.8inch

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https://www.thasilsuharabacker...The project titled Muziris to Lakhpat will involve research travel across the coastal line of the Arabian Sea from the Muziris region in Kerala to Lakhpat in Gujarat to explore around 32 imperial fort remains, together with 45 estuaries and lagoons, along the coast of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, and Gujarat. While the coastal regions have witnessed incursions from imperial and colonial trading forces, and subsequent cultural mixing in the ancient and medieval periods, these regions have also been facing the brunt of monstrous development initiatives from the governments in modern times. This makes the coastal regions significant sites of resistance. The purpose of the research travel is not to delve into the nostalgia of mapping the heritage of these places but to aggregate memories of resistance movements from personal archives. This Foundation Project is implemented by the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA).

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ExTended Socialism consists of three titles of work, which are derived from simple poetics of observation practice, deep gazing around the immediate earth nature.

The project consists of three works, which are predominantly a lens-based observation practice.

Extended Socialism 1.0: The first one is an essay entitled 'A mobile-micro-para intrusive towards the potentiality of survival itself meet our chances or not'.

Extended socialism 2.0 #8F00FF: The second iteration emphasizes the slowness and transfiguration of nature.

Unsettling Unknowing: The third and ongoing work is a series of photo collages combining living and expired matter on graphic sheets.

Contemporary Pollution is a video performance, created in contribution to the publication ‘Elephant in the Room’.

‘Elephant in the Room’ is a project by Conflictorium – Museum of Conflict (India) in collaboration with the contemporary art center Stroom Den Haag (Netherlands) that attempts to initiate conversations on art infrastructures. Towards producing a publication in response to the fissures and anxieties in the structuring of the arts – framed as the ‘Elephant in the Room’, the project asks: What are the elephants in the rooms you occupy or that are denied in the arts? Who are these elephants tethered to? Do they make noise? Can you touch them? Why do they exist? How can we free them from the confines of the rooms?

This performance is a juncture between different humanitarian crises happening around the world and the narratives of nationalism, citizenship and migrations imposed by the state. In the performance, a person leaves their residual in the nowhere of an arroyo and disappears into the darkness. A very slow procession that began in daylight and ended in the shadows of night echoed the voices and silent whispers of the oppressed; a reminiscence of the people's strength and integrity who thrived and lost their livelihoods against the anti-human actions of the power structures of our society.