Artistic Directors Academy Public Lecture: Celebrate, Educate, Abolish by Fadescha

Synopsis

In this multimedia presentation, Fadescha takes us through their transdisciplinary practice grounded in Queer Anarchist politics, and the intersectionality of caste-based subjugation. Caste is a system of exclusion and untouchability that ranks people at birth into a hierarchy based on alleged purity and pollution.

Fadescha finds voice through curatorial, artistic and theoretical making. They organise, and propose rest, parties and social gatherings as sites and tools for resisting the patriarchal, fascist and neo-liberal order. Fadescha through their curatorial project Party Office have been publishing works centring lived experiences of those structurally marginalised, producing counter archives through self-representation.

About Fadescha

Vidisha-Fadescha (they/them) is an artist, curator and cultural critic. Holding their lived experience of a radical gender, caste, race and disability, Fadescha suggests centering one’s own body and desire towards liberation. Their artistic work includes video, sound installations, text, and performance. They direct collective practices as a norm-critical pedagogy to queer hegemony.

Fadescha’s work has been published in arts and cultural magazines including Frieze, Flash Art, Texte zur Kunst, Metropolis M, Hyperallergic, Mezosfera, Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Galerie, Dazed, and Vogue.