The body is central to her artistic and curatorial inquiry. 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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Institutionally, she has collaborated in curatorial, programming, artistic, and production capacities with Instytut B61's (POL), Shoonya Centre for Art and Somatic Practices (IN), G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture and its community-based initiative - cityLab (IN), ARIAS, Amsterdam (NL), IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], The Story Of Foundation (IN), We Learn We Grow, Kochin Muziris Bienalle (IN), SPHERE, The Lisbon Consortium (PT), and Antecâmara (PT). She is also a board member for SPHERE, editor for the Diffractions Journal (PT), and Creative Director at Stage Rabbit.
She is currently preparing for an exhibition 'Things I Learnt By Being Cooked For' in conjunction with the food conference Our Food-Webbed World (March 6-8, 2025).
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research | curation | performance
s [hyphen] aiyer [at] ucp [dot] pt
aishwarya[at]spherefestival[dot]com
IG: aikuiye_
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design | facilitation | creative production
stagerabbit [dot] collab [at] gmail [dot] com
IG: stage_rabbit​
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