Pratyush Pushkar & Riya Raagini a.k.a. Bariya is a queer transdisciplinary
artist and writer duo from
New Delhi, India.
Their practice flowers from intersections inhabited by sincere ecological & decolonial awareness and meditation probing through subjective consciousness(ing). Theirs is a request to examine and host alternative forms of cognition, listening, un-identity, spirituality, and active resolve.
With commitments to non-cooperation and queer care, they synthesize and reconcile through ever-evolving sonics (& debris); poetry; images; Hindi culture & languaging; philosophy; and digital affinity & tactility.
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Kalachakra gathers temporal hacks within an archive of translated Hindi poetry spanning epochs. Synthesizing fragments in Hindi poetics with contrapuntal plead and spirituality, BaRiya’s anthology represents language’s quantum and inherited nature. Or with what they describe as »chants and lore emanating from language’s dips into temporal devices, of disrememberment, of devotion, of ruins, of elsewhere(s), of waiting, of delays; of restfulness.«
Commissioned by TBA21 Academy and Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary for The St _age-
"Octo-Durga is a “journey of unearthing multi-dimensional oceanic sensory and para-sensory conversations”. It is a multimedia manifestation questioning the obsolete dualities of humanity and nature, of earth and mind, of technology and culture. Created together with Eduardo Navarro and the Indian artists BaRiya (Riya Raagini and Pratyush Pushkar), Octo-Durga invites us to dive into a state of mind that connects with an underwater world where tentacular and meditative visions speculate about newforms of living based on solidarity and communality" - TBA-21
