Past Residents
Past Resident2021: Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation
Shoji Kato
Shoji Kato works with diverse mediums including paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations, and situations; at times, he employs sound, music, and moving images as well. This range reflects Kato’s multiscalar and multi-faceted approaches to the theme that he calls the ‘location of subjectivity.’ The artist explores ideas that are neither bounded to physical bodies and places. Moving between abstract and figurative thinking, Kato works with both solid and elusive materials to invite imagination and meditation about the interplay of collective movements and individual moments.
Shoji Kato has exhibited work at Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland; Kanazu Forest of Creation Museum, Japan; and Beijing International Art Biennale, China, among others.
Shoji Kato, Kalpa | Bedrock | Fibroin, 2020, rose gold on cast silver, aluminum, silk fabric, and drill core sample from Onkalo, silk fabric: 110 × 1491/2 in. (279.4 × 379.73 cm), diameter of bedrock cores: 2 × 77/8 in. (5.08 × 20 cm).
Shoji Kato, Kalpa | Bedrock | Fibroin, 2020, rose gold on cast silver, aluminum, silk fabric, and drill core sample from Onkalo, silk fabric: 110 × 1491/2 in. (279.4 × 379.73 cm), diameter of bedrock cores: 2 × 77/8 in. (5.08 × 20 cm).
Shoji Kato, Reaching, 2018-2019, public event: composed with buildings, climbers, safety devices, trumpet player, printed matters, text, images, clothes, hand honed spectrolite in hand made wooden case, variable dimensions.
Shoji Kato, Reaching, 2018-2019, public event: composed with buildings, climbers, safety devices, trumpet player, printed matters, text, images, clothes, hand honed spectrolite in hand made wooden case, variable dimensions.
Shoji Kato, Reaching, 2018-2019, public event: composed with buildings, climbers, safety devices, trumpet player, printed matters, text, images, clothes, hand honed spectrolite in hand made wooden case, variable dimensions.
Past Resident2021: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
Shaunak Mahbubani
Shaunak Mahbubani is a nomadic curator, writer, and arts organizer. They primarily pursue projects under the exhibition series ‘Allies for the Uncertain Futures’, focused on exploring the possibilities of socio-political, ecological and techno-evolutionary futures through the lens of non-duality. As a curator, they are interested in complicating boundaries between artwork and the viewer through participatory gatherings, diffusions, and the use of non-white cube spaces. They have also been collaborating with Vidisha-Fadescha as ‘After Party Collective’, since 2019.
Shaunak Mahbubani has curated at Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi; Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai; and Goethe-Institut, New Delhi, among others.
Shaunak Mahbubani, Saavdhaan: The Regimes of Truth, 2018, exhibition view at the Kalakar Theatre. photo by Polina Schapova.
Murari Jha, Fondle / चिकट, installation view at the Mumbai Art Room.
After Party Collective, some dance to remember, some dance to forget, 2020, 8:53 min. single channel video.
After Party Collective, Strictures of Violence, 2019, multimedia performance at the Goethe-Institut, New Delhi, 15 min.
Past Resident2021: AES+F
Aslan Goisum
Aslan Goisum tends to mine memory–collective and personal, political and cultural–for clues about colonial realities, how they have been endured and how they might be undone. Identities come into play in his work, as embodied effects of violence perpetrated or unfreedom suffered but also as possible openings, new beginnings. So far, his prime artistic tools have been the moving image, sculptural installation and various paper-based techniques.
Aslan Goisum has exhibited work at Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam; and Kohta, Helsinki, among others.
Aslan Goisum, Volga, 2015, single-channel, HD video projection, 4:11 min.
Aslan Goisum, People of No Consequence, 2016, single-channel, HD video projection, 8:34 min.
Aslan Goisum, Numbers, 2015, 50 metal plaques, 77/8 × 11 in. (20.07 × 27.94 cm) each.
Aslan Goisum, Untitled, 2015, one metal jug, six glass copies.
Aslan Goisum, No Need for Theories, 2011, book, soil, 3 × 411/16 × 10 in. (7.62 × 11.94 × 25.4 cm).
