PROJECTS
ONGOING
VUNJA! CARNIVALS
June 2024 – Present
Collaborators:
Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, Dancing with Mountains, Ishaan Aggarwal, Manish Ruparel
As part of the Organising Collective (OC) for India, I have been contributing to the birthing of the Indian Carnival which will take place in 2025.
"We carnival not because it is a solution, not because we have answers, not because we know the way. We carnival because we are seemingly already enlisted in its gestatory emergence. We carnival because the times are absurd, and one needs to meet the absurdities of the hour in new ways. Carnival is how dominant sense-making practices, implicated in the troubling anxieties of our times, yield to a co-inquiry, to new choreographies, to new cartographies of possibility."
— Bayo Akomolafe
AI & CONSCIOUSNESS
June 2023 – Present
Collaborators:
Julian Arnowski,
Conscious Consulting Group (CCG)
This project was an exploration of the intersection of AI and consciousness.
AI will undoubtedly have a transformative impact on almost every aspect of human life; by reflecting on how technology has already impacted our consciousness and questioning where do we go from here? We can begin to open ourselves to understanding how our consciousness too impacts the development of AI/technology.
The project aims to bring awareness to ourselves as conscious beings; tapping into our innate human-ness to encourage an approach of curiosity and openness for personal, societal and planetary flourishing.
MIND MEDITATIONS, NOODS RADIO
Oct 2020 – Present
Collaborators:
akka (Shareeka Helaluddin) , Alice Z Jones, BINT, Drendiela, Gillies Adamson Semple, Hell Hooks, Modern Biology, Pranj, Ratiba Ayadi (Silent Songstress), Ruhail Qaisar, R. Rebeiro, Sahba Saad, Saint Abdullah, Sundialll, Tanvi, thomasmartinnutt, TITO+, Zequenx
An online radio residency that aims to explore the varying ways in which sound can be remedial, not necessarily only through the sacred science of frequency but rather, by the intrinsic nature in which we engage and listen through our unique blueprints to create / shape our holographic reality.
Sound, as an ethereal element, has the potency to permeate the individual consciousness (of the listener) and expand itself into a shared collective experience; thus transmuting separateness. The symbiotic nature of sound, the ebb and flow from the individual to the collective and vice versa is witness to a merging of consciousness, resulting in quantum synchronicities; often influencing our thoughts, and inherently actions (karma).
In this way, Mind Meditations invites the listener to question the ways in which they engage with varying sounds (and music), sometimes light and easy on the ear, other times uncomfortable and triggering, either way, the listener will each have their own unique experience; the triggers point to where one is not free, and by this, the intention is to challenge and expand the listener.
PAST
☯禪 LIFE'S WORK ☯禪,
SUPPORT GROUP
April – June 2022
Inspiration:
Zen And The Art Of Making A Living; A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design by Lawrence G Boldt
Inspired by Laurence G. Boldt’s book, Zen And The Art Of Making A Living: A Practical Guide To Creative Career Design, I initiated a support group with the intention to facilitate a group; where we rediscover ourselves and our work in a safe container, through Laurence's teachings. The support group met virtually once a week to discuss the week’s assigned reading and our responses to the end-of-chapter exercises. Having a support group added accountability and helped actualise one's goal by sharing our reflections out loud and with eachother. It was open to anyone and everyone. Facilitated by me, free of charge.
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT,
MAGNETIC FIELDS NOMADS
March – April 2021
Collaborators:
Pranoy Thipaiah (Kerehaklu)
Magnetic Fields Nomads is a boutique offspring of the renowned contemporary arts and music festival, Magnetic Fields. As part of the Sustainability Team, my task was to assess the festival and create a detailed report to review the environmental impact, thus paving the way for a greener festival to follow.
The three-day event was held at Ranthambore Fort, a 16th-century style fortress turned luxury hotel (now renamed The Nahargarh) resembling a Mughal palace complex. Ranthambore Fort, in previous centuries, was situated in the middle of the forest; there was a time when enormous forest cover spanned almost the entire Indian subcontinent, but with time as the population grew and industrial development began, so did the exploitation of forest land, leading to the massive destruction of the green cover in the country.
The shrinking forest cover and wildlife in India compelled the government to give attention to this mounting problem and thus various policies were introduced to save the remaining forests and its wild inhabitants, making them reserve forests and national parks. Today, Ranthambore Fort stands just 701m away from the famous Ranthambore National Park, located at the foot of the Aravali Ranges. At this close proximity, there's no doubt that the increase of Light and Sound caused by the festival posed environmental threats to the surrounding biodiversity.
