The Artist Society Podcast

Avnit Singh speaks to Tasneem Lohani about how art becomes refuge in trying times, in nurturing interior worlds and evoking acts of making kin. She reveals how art as a calling discovered her relatively late, as a result of navigating life with an altruistic curiosity and an urge to create for its own sake. Framed within matrices of chance and spontaneity, her practice has become a vehicle to exca...

Curator Nupur Doshi and Artist Tasneem Lohani discuss themes from Lohani's solo exhibition, 'It's taking longer to download that it was to puke up' currently on view at Fulcrum, Bombay. Engaging with platform politics, social media and the impact of platform design on how humans communicate in digital spaces as these new etiquettes and behaviours translate to the IRL. Oorja Garg wr...

In this episode, Tasneem talks to Imaad Majeed, a poet, sometimes DJ and often artist, from Sri Lanka (/Ilankai). They talk about their multidisciplinary arts practice rooted in themes of belonging to Land, about their project, KACHA KACHA, a trilingual performance collective that invites artists, musicians, singers, rappers and poets to perform at working class bars to perform original material i...

In episode 3, Salik and Tasneem, friends for over seven years, talk about many topics while examining each new train of thought through the lens of his art practice. They discuss the effects of social media on society - a general lack of empathy, a sense of fear and hopelessness, and being digitally manipulated by algorithms and the politics around image-making at large. While also strategising wa...

Episode 2 of the podcast is a conversation with Artist Vasudhaa Narayanan. We speak to her about her exploration of the politics of women's bodies and gender under caste in an Indian society. Looking at women's relationships with their bodies beyond shame and hate, and into a space of acceptance. This podcast episode was a special one for us as we got to speak with Vasudhaa in the gallery space, w...

The first episode features Mohit Mahato, an artist who wears his heart on his sleeve. This might not seem so unusual for an artist, but Mohit personifies being raw, vulnerable, and open to processing difficult emotions through his work. In this first conversation, we touch upon something that has not been explored before: the intimate friendships between artists. The host, Tasneem Lohani and the g...