Past Resident
2024: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap makes art to locate how caste is coded in the real. Their practice-based-research is driven to articulate how the caste-ideological-grading of workers, as various levels of Sudra (‘insignificant, menial and unknowledgeable’) counters reality as unintelligible, by notionally dissociating the bridge of Knowledge and Work. Kashyap runs a research-and-development lab called zeropowercut to create collective productions of Dalit-Bahujan discourse from their small studio in the old city of Patna-Saheb, Bihar.
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap has exhibited work at The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art; The New Medium III; and Serendipity Arts Residency 2023, all in India, among others.
![a ‘sadabahar’ [the name translates to ‘always prosperous’] plant grow in the limited resources of a brick wall crack](https://iscp-nyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/sada1-scaled.jpeg)
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap, always everywhere, yet absent, 2022, bricks, sand, cement, soil, and live Sadabahar plant, 18 × 18 in. (45.72 × 45.72 cm).
![a ‘sadabahar’ [the name translates to ‘always prosperous’] plant grow in the limited resources of a brick wall crack](https://iscp-nyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/sada_baby-scaled.jpeg)
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap, always everywhere, yet absent, 2022, bricks, sand, cement, soil, and live Sadabahar plant, 18 × 18 in. (45.72 × 45.72 cm).
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap, anumanlok [English Name: guess-wor(l)d] w/ —out-of-line—, 2023, interactive voice response system, data phone and Bhojpuri/Hindi.
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap, jangayek.txt w/ —out-of-line— and Raju Ranjan, 2023, online song performance and discussion, leather and plastic dafli (Drum) and text.
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap, imitation, 2022, video-projection and broken-bucket speaker.
