e: natascha.nanji@gmail.com
ig: @nanjisan
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Exhibitions / Events / Conferences/Commissions:
COMING UP
+ An essay commissioned by Adwait Singh for the 14th edition of the Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, July 2022
PAST
+Welcome to Studio Swan - speculative fiction writing workshop, Spike Island, Bristol, February 2022+ From the Erotic to the Ecstatic, for Dead Lovers: Anïas Nin, an essay commissioned by Sticky Fingers Publishing, October-December 2021+Catching up with the Present to Imagine the Future, Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC), Panelist, October 20th, 2021+ Welcome to Studio Swan, performed for Unbore (NL based arts, science + technology collective), 30 November 2019 + CRISPR, ethics + circles of trust, a story telling performance – URBANEK Gallery, London, Oct 12th 2019+Forest Curriculum, participant in the co-learning summer school: “towards an eco-sophical mode of thinking rooted in the cosmologies of the nature cultures of zomia, the forested belt that connect South and Southeast Asia”. Bangkok, Thailand, 1-21 June 2019+Performative reading with The Political Animal Group of The Insect Play by The Capek Brothers, Kunstraum Gallery, November 2018+DIY Residency: Encounters, This is Live Art, Jersey Island, 12-17 August 2018+Funerary Futures, a text performed at The Surround at Re-Imagined Futures, Lighthouse, Brighton, May 2018+ Finding Fatima, An Exercise in Location, essay performed at symposium: Speculative Design: Afrofuturist + Indigenous Projections, Chelsea College of Art, UAL, May.2018+ The Political Animal visits Dublin, Arts Council funded trip to meet with The Political Animal reading group in Dublin, November 2017+How is emotion aestheticized through technology? Conference paper delivered at J G Ballard and the Sciences, at the Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy (CSFF), November 2017+unFOLD, to launch fourFOLD, Enclave, Deptford, June 2015 (group show).+ The Artist as Material, workshop + performance with Ingo Niermann at Auto Italia, 24-25 May, 2014+COSMOS / \ CHAOS, Meditations on Mythology, Part 1, installation at V&A Museum, 28 March, 2014+Winter Open Studios, The Chocolate Factory, N16. December, 2013.+A Fantasy Photo Album at the V&A – commissioned event produced for Archive Live, Friday Late at the V&A, February, 2011+ Circuit Wisely Part II, Ability Plaza, E8, September, 2010 (group show)+Silent City, The Rag Factory, E1, May, 2010 (group show)+Goldsmiths Fine Art & History of Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, London, June, 2009+ Off Modern Part Five, Corsica Studios, March, 2009 (group show)+Collision, Area 10, Peckham, September, 2008 (in collaboration with Ana Noble)+ Circuit Wisely, Shoreditch Town Hall, July, 2008 (group show)+Curiosophy, Red Gate Gallery, Brixton, April, 2008 (group show)+Local Operations, Serpentine Gallery, June, 2007 (performance)
CONSULTANCY PROJECTS
Digitalistion, Communications, Programme Development:
The Horse Hospital, London, September 2020 - February 2021
Event Communications, London, January - September 2020
Rosetta Arts, London, May 2018 - February 2019
UnBox Design Festival, New Delhi, July 2012 - April 2013
Asia Contemporary Art Fair, Hong Kong, March 2012 - June 2012
Black Film Festival, London, January 2003 - November 2003
AWARDS:
Heritage Lottery Grant awarded to work on Parallel Views, Black History in London at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, July – Sept 2007
EDUCATION:
MA, Critical Writing for Art & Design, Royal College of Art, 2015 – 2017Final Major Project: With Long Iridescent Green Claws, Perspectives out of Nature
Supervisor: Dr Nina Power
BA Hons. Fine Art + History of Art , Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2006 – 2009Dissertation: Drives, Desire and Devices of a Modern Indian Architect: Balkrishna.V.Doshi
Supervisor: Dr Andy Lowe
BTEC Foundation, Art and Design , Westminster Kingsway College, 2006 – 2006
BA Hons. Social Anthropology with African + Asian Studies (AFRAS), University of Sussex, 1996 – 1999Dissertation: Catharsis through Culture? Appropriating South Asian Culture
Supervisor: Dr Joel Robbins