Abhishek Hazra uses video, performance and text with an ironic fascination for theoretical debates around knowledge production and historiography. His recent series of lecture performances explore questions around affect, precarity and provincial cosmopolitanism. Abhishek has exhibited widely, including Kochi Muziris Biennale, Experiment Marathon Reykjavik and MAXXI Museum, Rome. He has been an artist-in-residence in various residences including Gasworks, London and SymbioticA, Perth. Abhishek has also been the recipient of multiple awards including the Sanskriti Award for Visual Art.

ESSAYS

Through an Iconoclast's Shredder

by Rita Datta

The essay was first published in Experimenter and The Telegraph, 2020.

Those who may chance upon Abhishek Hazra's four-film installation that was on view at Experimenter- Hindustan Road in October would need to keep their thinking caps on and search engines ready and raring. To

Droboniyo’s Tippani Room: Dilemmas of the Historical Contingent

by Amrita Chakravarty

It is almost with a sense of the uncanny that one encounters the information that the party of Trump was once the party of Lincoln, champions of the kind of social liberalism that the Republican Party in the US has subsequently come to resist. Or that Foucault, the darling of the radical left, had evinced

Abhishek Hazra

Through an Iconoclast's Shredder

Droboniyo’s Tippani Room: Dilemmas of the Historical Contingent

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