Anupam Saikia

A photographic Art Performance at Thane, Mumbai. This work was a part of the residency program at Piramal Art residency, Cycle 4 / Thane, Mumbai. The Cycle 4 of Piramal Art Residency program was exploring the idea of “Binary” and how artist can experiment the idea of Binary through their mediums. Life is often perceived as binaries but do binaries really exist or is it yet another construct. On the other hand “The Binary” of body and mind, or the physicality and psychological conflict have always been the thrust of my work. My purpose was to explore the binary of psychological violence and realty through my art works and bring forward the subconscious terror and conscious artistry in the same platform. In this program I was exploring the idea of binary between construction and destruction embodied inside and out. process The residency space is in Thane, Mumbai and it was a medicine factory before which was demolish during the residency period. I was started drawing of...

Venue: Near Dept of Fine Arts, S.N. School / University of Hyderabad, 2015 Philosopher Zizek said in the documentary named “the examined life” - “We need to our own distance and alienation from nature, to see the trash that we have produced. Furthermore, we need to find a way to do poetry and spirituality in the dirt of our world. Only when we are really able to see and embrace trash can we expose the factors that cause environmental destruction. Only after these factors and their impacts are seen and exposed have we built the ground for real and systemic change to take place.” Partially i inspired from this and I started to collect some waste material such as electronic dump, wood, plastic which is available in landscape and think about them, its history, and utility etc or why I picked up? Which force me to be chosen the particular object? I am trying to find out from an object to human condition. Therefore I hanged these collected materials in well organized manne...

An installation with readymade object / 2015. Venue: studio space of Theater Department in University of Hyderabad. This work is emerges from the everyday object of human life and how I can use these object in a theatrical space enhances into a psychological space. The space in between the object fabricated the frame of isolation attached with the human life embodied it conveys tension, alienation, emptiness, void, poetic, fear, incompleteness, melancholy, isolation within the object and between the objects create a mood which is constructing a psychological space. The uncertainty, the dark empty space, static and rigid object create a haunted space enhancing theatricality and void.  Details @ Anupam Saikia. #anupamsaikia #installationart #visualart

A collaborative Art Performances by Anupam Saikia, Pallov Saikia and Anupam Aliass. It was the final day, 3 rd May 2016, of MFA final display of S.N. School, University of Hyderabad. We a group of students who strongly active and participate in ongoing protest and movement at University of Hyderabad. One needs to ask what role of us or we,  the students from the fine arts department in general has played in relation to the larger politics of the University of Hyderabad campus this year. Especially, in the recent times when the university has come in the center  of national and international debate, since the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula. That day morning , we came to know that VC appa rao who is the main culprit of this incident and he will come to see our display which we are not agree to allow our show in front of him. So, Anupama Alias one of the final year students stated covered his painting as a reaction or act towards his coming. We...

31 march. 2016 / duration: 20 minute (According to plan) As the misshapen at University of Hyderabad on 22 march 2016, where Students were brutally bitten up by the police when the students try to protest against the administration regarding the students movement about Rohith Vemula. I think, I don’t need to explain this situation again. I got the inspiration from this suppression, fear, violence created by the power structure. And it is also in solidarity with those students who were brutally bitten up by police. I want to create a psychological space including the audience where a person suffers from the suppression. Some photographs from the incident of 22nd march in University of Hyderabad including another part of India such as Jammu and Kashmir as well as from northeast had pasted on a structure and installed in to the performative space. Also there was a red chair and a lathi installs in front of the structure.   My body was silent, helpless and a leather...