Kalponik Rekha #2 with Rah Naqvi, K_anti, মm.
Kalponik Rekha #2
Rah Naqvi
Rah Naqvi (he/they) is an Indian artist currently based in Amsterdam. Their work engages in narratives themed around religious and societal polarisation, often using art as a tool to question structural hegemonies. The materiality and techniques in their work are at play to create familiarity with the viewer; with satire, whimsical props, and themes of softness you are made to believe something joyous awaits. Rah uses this familiarity, these grounds for communion to navigate more complex and dynamic subjects of belonging and imposed colonial identities. Intrinsic to their work is their trans-ness, as explored in their performances, Rah seeks for trans-masculine joys in unlikely spaces, dwelling in the overlaps of trans marginal solidarity with the working class. The language of queer defiance extends to their practice of singing, alluding to the polyphonic nature of love and revolution while cautioning against the monotony of a choice-less future.
K_anti
K_anti is a multidimensional singer/songwriter & producer from Nepal, grown up in the UK. She draws inspiration from her life, love and loss inspired by her personal life experiences. Debuting her live performance of ‘Boksi’, inspired by the witch-hunts of free spirited women in Nepal. K_anti hopes to shed light on this topic, to give voice to the injustice women have faced in her homeland
@kanti_forever
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anotherl1fe.com
মm.
মm. is a DJ, curator, researcher and community organizer based in Dhaka & Vienna. Their sets are heavily inspired by diasporic movements, memories, and hybridities, and feature genres, styles and rhythms from the global South with intentions to trace collaborative music histories across the larger region. Carefully crafted along historic and socio-cultural movements of sounds and musical languages, @m_read_mwo is trying to evoke the listener’s nostalgia. They are founding member of @ghurni_karkhana Collective in Dhaka and @spice_mixers in Vienna – a collective that aims to create BIPOC ((Black, Indigenous and People of Color)-focused spaces where different cultural and social experiences of diaspora and migrant communities can be celebrated.
Curated by Avita Maheen. Counterclock Odyssey & De/others exhibit a resistance to mainstream narratives of diasporic binaries and decoloniality.
Dear Dia,
Stop me from falling in the revolving trap of external authorship and census of othering tactics in ultra-demystified hauntology.
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