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 CURRENT & UPCOMING EVENTS

2022 Core Exhibition
Glassell School of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
March 10–April 22, 2022

the landscape reconstitutes itself absolutely
aashra/Ashkal Alwan
April 14–May 15, 2022

Documentary Films for Imagining Futures (discussion with Ben Mendelsohn, Liang Zhao, Inuk Jørgensen, Esther Figueroa and Mimi Sheller, moderated by Alissa Jordan and Kinjal Dave)
Building Solidarity in the Anthropocene Symposium, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
April 29, 2022

Extended Studio
Video Screening co-programmed with Mickey Aloisio, Bryan Castro, and Fred Schmidt Arenales

Favrot Auditorium
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
April 21, 2022, 7pm



PAST EVENTS

2022
Environmental Racism and Infrastructure Injustice in the United States and Beyond (discussion with Nikhil Anand, Daniel Amranios, and Lance Freeman, moderated by Kelly Diaz)
Building Solidarity in the Anthropocene Symposium, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

The Lake and The Lake, Bartlett Screening Room Series,
screening and discussion with Henrietta Williams and Maxwell Mutanda, University College, London

Dwelling Breathing, Dreaming: The Afterlife of Waste,
discussion with Henry G. Sanchez and Willow Naomi Curry,
Houston Climate Justice Museum

The Depths, Locust Projects, Miami


2021
Pasture, screening and discussion with Asa Mendelsohn, Wendy's Subway, New York

On The Environment, Penn Live Arts, Philadelphia

The Lake and The Lake in South Asia Foreground on Labocine

Beyond Story:  Union Docs Study Group at Sheffield Doc Fest

PLASMA Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Buffalo

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2020
The Lake and The Lake at Camden International Film Festival

The Lake and The Lake at DokuFest, Prizren

Troubling the Frame, Troubling the Terrain: discussion with Razan Al-Salah, Adam Khalil, Kurt Otabenga Orderson, Michèle Stephenson, moderated by Nehad Khader, BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia

The Lake and The Lake at BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia

The Lake and The Lake at Open City Documentary Festival, London

Conjuncture, EFA Project Space, New York

Flux Thursday: Remote Karaoke, Flux Factory, New York

The Lake and The Lake at Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, St. Petersburg

Different Colourful Designs + The Lake and The Lake
at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Center, Buffalo

The Lake and The Lake at Ann Arbor Film Festival

The Lake and The Lake at IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival, New Delhi

Sonic Worlds, Little Art Theatre, Yellow Springs

Good Morning, India!, Flux Factory, Queens

Beautification, Union Docs, Brooklyn

On Beautification, 1 Shanthi Road Studio/Gallery, Bangalore


2019
The Lake and The Lake at The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)

San Francisco Supper, Flux Factory, Queens

Circadian Regions, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles

Comida a Mano, CURRENT:LA Public Art Triennial, Reseda Recreation Center, Los Angeles

Beyond Story, panel with Alexandra Juhasz, Alisa Lebow, and Rick Prelinger, Poetics + Politics of Documentary Research Symposium, University of California, Santa Cruz

The Lake and The Lake (preview screening) at Artists Television Access, San Francisco

Beautification, Department of Visual Anthropology, University of Münster

Soundphiles, 15th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival, New Delhi

Labour in A Single Shot curated by Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki, multiple locations (2013–19)


2018
Alternative Projections, Bread & Salt, San Diego


On Beautification, Interrogating the Archive Symposium, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego

Different Colourful Designs, Center for Art of the Indian Subcontinent, San Diego Museum of Art

Ecology and a Metropolis, Walkin Studios, Bangalore

Bodies in Trouble, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

womenofcolour@soagallery, School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

Composition for Temple Speakers, Third Annual Graduate Conference on South Asia, Center for India and South Asia, University of California, Los Angeles

Borderlines: Telling South Asia and US-Mexico Border Histories through Art and Performance, discussion with Sehba Sarwar, co-moderated with Yessica Garcia-Hernandez, University of California, San Diego


2017
Soundphiles, International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerela, Trivandrum

MMMMM...Alone (of all her sex), University of Oslo

How to Avoid Trauma, SOMA, Mexico City

Material Mortality, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco

Sound and Violence, The Ché Cafe, La Jolla

Black Arts Collective Screening @ Deeptime University, The Ché Cafe, La Jolla

Distance from Dirt, University of California, San Diego

Identity, Love, Power by Black Arts Collective, University of California, San Diego


2016
Composition for Temple Speakers, Sonologia 2016: International Conference of Sound Studies, Sao Paulo

Speaking, Listening, Interpreting: the Critical Engagements of Oral History, Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore

Disposessed: A Call to Prayer and Protest, University of California, San Diego

____ Next to Godliness, University of California, San Diego

New Student Movements, Asians on Campus Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

New Things Are More, University of California, San Diego

On and Off The Map, University of California, San Diego


2015
Sound and the Urban Environment, ONCA Gallery, Brighton

One and One Make Eleven, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal

Soundphiles, 11th Asian Women’s Film Festival, India International Center, New Delhi

Many Echoes, Many Worlds at Transmissions3, Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi

Foveal Experiments, Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi


2014
The C(h)roma Show, Croma Electronics, Bangalore

Where Do I End and You Begin, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh

Where Do I End and You Begin, Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi


Soundphiles, Dharamshala International Film Festival, Dharamshala

Soundphiles, 10th Asian Women’s Film Festival, India International Centre, New Delhi



2013
PEERS Share I, Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi

Urban Lens Film Festival, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore

Mediating Modernity in the 21st Century, Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore

The Museum of Conflict, The Conflictorium, Ahmedabad

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