e: nataschananji@gmail.com
ig: @nanjisan
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PRESENT / MOST RECENT / COMING UP
+ Forthcoming, running a three-hour immersive writing workshop, Welcome to Studio Swan, for the Beyond Form creative writing platform, December 2025
+ Current artist-in-residence at OSO Theatre in Barnes for the Autumn 2025 Season. Working on Table Reads, a public participation project that brings together a group of strangers to read the same play, once a week, over the duration of the residency. We are reading The Tree Climber, an absurdist play by Egyptian playwright Tawfik al-Hakim with a public performance at the end of November 2025
+ Excerpt from an original film adaptation of La Jalousie (Jealousy) by Alain Robbe-Grillet, a commission by Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, for their billboard commission by invited artist Sukaina Kubba titled, Jealousy, Now the Shadow, October 2023
+ Kalamata drama international summer school led by Andrew Visnevski, acting school participant, August 20-4th Sept, 2023
+ An Offspring for a Polyp, (working title), ghostwriter for Theetat Thunkijjankj, six-chapter book project about mimicry and its associative net of interdependencies. Beginning with the praying mantis, my research explores mimics such as ghosts, echoes, hunters, and Smerinthus ocellatus-the-eyed hawk-moth, publication date TBC.
+ Ratio Clubbers, residency weekend, led by Hannah Drayson, Braziers Park, UK, June 9-12th, 2023
+ Crisis in Three Parts, published in Deleuzine, edition II: She-Dog, Summer 2023
+ Existing Figures, led by Kirstin Winters, participant in the movement and writing workshop, held at Coronet Theatre, London, January 2023
+ Voiceover for Hoa Lo Prison Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam, commissioned by Ayesha Keshani, January 2023
+ Welcome to Studio Swan, an onsite proposition, selected for 'Penny for your thoughts, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, December 2022
+ The Road to Wawa, An Epilogue, 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
+ Voice acting for character in the audio play, Lissener, for Estuary Festival, created and commissioned by Feral Practice, March 2020
+ Welcome to Studio Swan, performed for Unbore (NL-based arts, science + technology collective), November 30th, 2019
+ CRISPR, ethics + circles of trust, a storytelling performance – URBANEK Gallery, London, Oct 12th, 2019
+ Forest Curriculum, a 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 connects South and Southeast Asia”. Bangkok, Thailand, June 1-21st, 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, August 12-17th, 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 the 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, May 24-25th, 2014
+ COSMOS / \ CHAOS, Meditations on Mythology, Part 1, installation at V&A Museum, March 28th, 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, Curated by Cara Nahaul, The Rag Factory, London, 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)
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ARTS CONSULTANCY PROJECTS
Digitalisation, Communications, and 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
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AWARDS:
Heritage Lottery Grant awarded to work on Parallel Views, Black History in London at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, July – Sept 2007
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EDUCATION:
MA, Critical Writing for Art & Design, Royal College of Art, 2015 – 2017
Final Major Project: With Long Iridescent Green Claws, Perspectives out of Nature
Supervisor: Dr.Nina Power
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BA Hons. Fine Art + History of Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2006 – 2009
Dissertation: Drives, Desire, and Devices of a Modern Indian Architect: Balkrishna.V.Doshi
Supervisor: Dr Andy Lowe
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BTEC Foundation, Art and Design, Westminster Kingsway College, 2006 – 2006
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BA Hons. Social Anthropology with African + Asian Studies (AFRAS), University of Sussex, 1996 – 1999
Dissertation: Catharsis through Culture? Appropriating South Asian Culture
Supervisor: Dr.Joel Robbins
e: nataschananji@gmail.com
ig: @nanjisan
_
PRESENT / MOST RECENT / COMING UP
+ Forthcoming, running a three-hour immersive writing workshop, Welcome to Studio Swan, for the Beyond Form creative writing platform, December 2025
+ Current artist-in-residence at OSO Theatre in Barnes for the Autumn 2025 Season. Working on Table Reads, a public participation project that brings together a group of strangers to read the same play, once a week, over the duration of the residency. We are reading The Tree Climber, an absurdist play by Egyptian playwright Tawfik al-Hakim with a public performance at the end of November 2025
+ Excerpt from an original film adaptation of La Jalousie (Jealousy) by Alain Robbe-Grillet, a commission by Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, for their billboard commission by invited artist Sukaina Kubba titled, Jealousy, Now the Shadow, October 2023
+ Kalamata drama international summer school led by Andrew Visnevski, acting school participant, August 20-4th Sept, 2023
+ An Offspring for a Polyp, (working title), ghostwriter for Theetat Thunkijjankj, six-chapter book project about mimicry and its associative net of interdependencies. Beginning with the praying mantis, my research explores mimics such as ghosts, echoes, hunters, and Smerinthus ocellatus-the-eyed hawk-moth, publication date TBC.
+ Ratio Clubbers, residency weekend, led by Hannah Drayson, Braziers Park, UK, June 9-12th, 2023
+ Crisis in Three Parts, published in Deleuzine, edition II: She-Dog, Summer 2023
+ Existing Figures, led by Kirstin Winters, participant in the movement and writing workshop, held at Coronet Theatre, London, January 2023
+ Voiceover for Hoa Lo Prison Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam, commissioned by Ayesha Keshani, January 2023
+ Welcome to Studio Swan, an onsite proposition, selected for 'Penny for your thoughts, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, December 2022
+ The Road to Wawa, An Epilogue, 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
+ Voice acting for character in the audio play, Lissener, for Estuary Festival, created and commissioned by Feral Practice, March 2020
+ Welcome to Studio Swan, performed for Unbore (NL-based arts, science + technology collective), November 30th, 2019
+ CRISPR, ethics + circles of trust, a storytelling performance – URBANEK Gallery, London, Oct 12th, 2019
+ Forest Curriculum, a 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 connects South and Southeast Asia”. Bangkok, Thailand, June 1-21st, 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, August 12-17th, 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 the 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, May 24-25th, 2014
+ COSMOS / \ CHAOS, Meditations on Mythology, Part 1, installation at V&A Museum, March 28th, 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, Curated by Cara Nahaul, The Rag Factory, London, 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)
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ARTS CONSULTANCY PROJECTS
Digitalisation, Communications, and 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 – 2017
Final 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 – 2009
Dissertation: 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 – 1999
Dissertation: Catharsis through Culture? Appropriating South Asian Culture
Supervisor: Dr.Joel Robbins