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Osheen Siva in conversation with Jelena Sofronijevic and Nicola Thiara

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Alongside Bonington Gallery's current exhibition, Karuppu, join us for a free online in-conversation event between exhibiting artist Osheen Siva with Jelena Sofronijevic, producer of Empire Lines podcast and NTU's Nicole Thiara, researcher of Dalit and Adivasi literature.

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Together, Osheen, Jelena and Nicole will explore topics related to Osheen’s practice;  their inspiration from cultural aesthetics that explore speculative futures and racial identity, including Afrofuturism. Osheen’s work uses science fiction, mythology, and religious heritage amidst their love of comic books and the vibrant soul of South India. Their artworks imagine fantastical dreamscapes, whilst reclaiming and reinventing Indian folktales and myths to imagine a decolonised future.

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This event will be live streamed on YouTube, with auto generated closed captions. During the live event there will be the opportunity to ask questions.

Osheen Siva
Osheen is a multidisciplinary artist from Thiruvannamalai, currently based in Goa. Through the lens of surrealism, speculative fiction and science fiction and rooted in their Dalit and Tamil heritage, Siva imagines new worlds of decolonised dreamscapes, futuristic oases with mutants and monsters and narratives of queer and feminine power. Visit Osheen’s website and Instagram.

Jelena Sofronijevic
Jelena (@empirelinespodcast, @jelsofron) is a producer, curator, writer, and researcher, who makes content at the intersections of cultural history, politics, and the arts. Beyond their works in print, they are the producer of EMPIRE LINES, a podcast which uncovers the unexpected flows of empires through art, and historicity, a new series of audio walking tours, exploring how cities got to be the way they are, recorded on location in London (2022) and Tokyo (2023). Their full portfolio of work is available on their website, and social media.

Nicole Thiara
Nicole is Co-Lead of Nottingham Trent University’s Postcolonial and Global Studies Research Group and Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded Research Network ‘Writing, Analysing, Translating Dalit Literature’ and its Follow-on Grant ‘On Page and on Stage: Celebrating Dalit and Adivasi Literatures and Performing Arts’. She teaches postcolonial and contemporary literature at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her area of research is Dalit, Adivasi and diasporic South Asian literature and her current research project focuses on the representation of modernity in Dalit literature.

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Virtual Event https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/events/events/2024/4/osheen-siva-in-conversation-with-jelena-sofronijevic-and-nicola-thiara

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