Kumar engages in systems that examine and order the world – from form to practice –through performance. Her research and practice intersect corporeal literacies, neuroscience, somatics, political philosophy, movement and visual arts with disciplinary rigour of training and architectural structures, seeking to produce tensions for non-modes of learning and perception. Over the years, she has produced work ranging from research, writing, editorials, performances, mixed media installations, paintings and media art, publications, and community-centred projects across Mumbai, Bangalore, London, Fort Kochi, Greece, Goa, Utrecht, and Lisbon. Her recent work and writings are available through Transmission in Motion (2020), Junctions Journal (2021), ARIAS, Amsterdam (2022), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2023), 4K/less (2023), and Contemporanea (2024).

To construct experiences for new ways of perception, she regularly undergoes intensives that demand repetition such as bodywork, diving, academia, physical theatre, medicine and more that allow her to explore the research on herself. All of which feed her examination of how bodies and the hideousness of movement produce meaning, counter-normative spaces, relations, cultures, and knowledge. In 2018 she founded Stage Rabbit to accumulate and disseminate gestures of and at; encounters – human, hybrid, and multi-species, belonging and disconnection – in cultures, cities,  ideologies, and diasporas, sex and sexual expression – its orientations and constructed spatialities, and networks – in philosophy, education, and exhibition design.

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