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mithu sen

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(un)medium

For me the medium is life and human experiences. The resulting byproducts are physical remnants of my artistic production. The cross media practice allows me the dexterity and freedom to work with life as a primary medium. The tactile form is an enabler which manifests a cognitive and sensory process which is my practice. In my art practice, human communication and interactions are the primary material which I employ to produce tactile outputs in the formats of  video, sculpture, installation, drawing, poetry, sound and performance. These manifested forms I call byproducts.

Both the cognitive connection and physical realization in a tactile form happens using artificial intelligence. Our world view is a constructed reality which we produce and consume to bring to existence our perceived reality- like a drawing. Fundamentally history, culture, myths and our own identities are all constructs of our imagination. The mind employs cognition to create references and actualize a reality. And inversely it becomes feasible to manipulate reality  through cognitive intervention. My art practice intends to explore human interactions in this context. This inversion of the established contexts reveal  hidden complex layers of the mind and senses.

I deploy UN as a non language narrative trope. When prefixed with a noun, adverb or adjective it lends a contrary meaning to the word. I use UN as a linguistic tool of my own making, to (un)layer the possible manifestations of my practice and artworks. By attaching these two alphabets, the word becomes potent with dual meaning. I superimpose this usage so both the evident outcome and hidden processes can manifest together. UN also intends to infer the broad spectrum of meanings, both binaries and polarities, that can be constructed in our minds and manifested in physical form.

projects

2026
What Do Birds Dream At Dusk?

2025
Unmyth Acknowledgement

2024
I AM OL CHIKI
A PRAYER UNANSWERED
Shadows.One Yet Separate

2023
Hiraeth 
mOTHERTONGUE
iWITNESS
“I am from there. I am from here”
mOTHER I SPELL YOU WRONG

2022
Until you 206

2021
Be Beyond Being
Until You..

2020
Uncatharsis
BERKELEY FOR SALE !!
QR
Unlockdown

2019
UnMansplaining
Lunch is cancelled
How to be a SUCKcessful Artist
100 (un)silent ways

2018
UnMYthU: UnKIND(s) Alternatives

2017
Unlynching
Sounding Drawing
Unline
Unhome in City IF Angels
We Unfinish each other
I Replace You
Embodied Language
Return Gifts: For Sale

2016
(Left Untold)
Aphasia
Kenopsia
Mis(s)Guide

2015
Tongue that won't stop wounding
Unwor(l)dly
Nonversation

2014
Border Unseen
Shop Lifting
I have only one language; it is not mine
Poems Declined
A ° V O I D

2013
I Am a Poet
Deafening Silence
Same River Twice
Artist: Unknown
Cannibal Lullaby

2012
I am not me
Devoid
In House Adoption
Twinkle Twinkle

2011
MOU (Museum of Unbelongings)
Once upon a sari
Ahh Taj !!
For(e)play
In Transit
No thing

2010
graffiti
Black Candy (Iforgotmypenisathome)
Unwanted

2009
Abstract Cabinet
Dropping Gold, Dropping Gold
Me two

2008
Nothing lost in translation
I dig,I look down

2007
Non spinal
Freemithu 2007-ongoing
Half Full
Kamdhenu
Indubala and her Unbelongings

2006
I chew, I bite, The Unknown
Icarus
All that's solid melts into air
It's good to be a queen
Letters on the beach
Drawing Room
Ephemeral Affair
Being Anastacia

2005
Spiritual materialistic

2004
No star, No land, No word, No Commitment
Breathing
Burnt by the sun
Outside the war zone

2003
I hate pink
Twilight Zone

2002
No way out

2001
Unbelongings

2000
Can we really look beyond the map?
Hair Unbelongings