I am delighted to have been selected as the first-ever 2020 Artist-in-Residence at the Centre for South Asian Civilizations (CSAC) at the University of Toronto Mississuaga (UTM).

The CSAC artist-in-residence provides funding to a contemporary artist for the winter semester (February-April) to develop site-responsive and site-specific work in any format on campus. The purpose of the residency is to disrupt existing forms of on-campus engagement through the use of contemporary art.

Over the next several weeks, come visit and participate as we hand-wash clothes, prompting discussion of the role and lifecycle of clothing and it’s care in the care of self and others around the world while taking into consideration the role of class, caste, gender, colonialism, capitalism, religious nationalism, and the environment.

I look forward to using contemporary art to disrupt the campus environment and generate body-based activity and critical conversation. Our collective survival depends on it.

As the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted my planned on-campus activities, I had to change my proposed project to a stay-at-home residency. I am still interested in the initial themes, however my methods of investigation and creation have changed. While the residency has officially ended, I continue to work on this project that I have titled Unskilled. You can read about the updated project and its progress here.