During this workshop Priya Mistry will draw on and share her working processes. Together we will explore:
Juxtaposition of fact, fiction and acts of reimagining
Provocation and invitation as tools for evoking critical engagement
The use of objects, performative actions, visual, sound, word languages and other languages.
At the time of writing, Mistry is still in planning for this session. She is percolating on the current exhibition at Pushkin House, which is, in this moment, evoking the….. horses, love, church, traitor, & flashbacks.
This event is part of the engagement programme to accompany The Battle Over Mazepa exhibition by Mykola Ridnyi. The programme explores themes of memory, identity and migration.
Empire's Old Clothes, ARTIST: whatsthebigmistry, IMAGE: Simon Alleyne Science.
Artist: whatsthebigmistry IMAGE CREDIT: Julian Hughes
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whatsthebigmistry (Priya Mistry) is a multidisciplinary artist, socially engaged worker and creative producer-curator, working under the pseudonym whatsthebigmistry. Their extensive body of works straddle visual performance, digital and live art .
Mistry’s practice is underpinned by the deconstruction of language and exploration of sensory/non-word based vocabularies. Their work explores and generates discourse at the Intersection of Identities. It connects on the topics of invisible dis/ability/neurodiversity, BIPOC/Global Majority, Queer and Feminist politics, whilst investigating human bodies, functional and everyday objects as sculptural propositions, generating choreographies and arrangements between bodies, objects and space.