I am in a process called life
what else is there
some call it art
what I erase speaks loudest
Anuradha Nalapat is a multi-disciplinary artist-poet based out of Bangalore and she has served as a member of the Kerala Lalita Kala Akademi and Sahitya Akademi. A patron of KBF she has participated in the Lokame tharavadu show and conducted art experiential workshops for the Kochi Biennale Foundation and the Kerala Lalitha kala Akademi. Her latest curation was called ‘Presence of Absence in Man’- the elephant in the room- a multimedia, inclusive explorations and workshops for over ten days of poetry, music, performances, paintings and theatre. Through ‘The Stillness Project’ she aims to spread awareness of a delicate ecosystem within and without.
Anuradha Nalapat is a multi-disciplinary artist-poet based out of Bangalore and she has served as a member of the Kerala Lalita Kala Akademi and Sahitya Akademi. A patron of KBF she has participated in the Lokame tharavadu show and conducted art experiential workshops for the Kochi Biennale Foundation and the Kerala Lalitha kala Akademi. Her latest curation was called ‘Presence of Absence in Man’- the elephant in the room- a multimedia, inclusive explorations and workshops for over ten days of poetry, music, performances, paintings and theatre. Through ‘The Stillness Project’ she aims to spread awareness of a delicate ecosystem within and without.
She participated in the Indian exposition- Espace Sorbonne 4 Galerie in Paris in 2023 and has held over seventy solo shows and participated in various group and international art shows. She was part of the artistic interventions collaboration at the Exploratory Museum San Francisco with the 3rd Space Lab Collective in 2014.
‘Name Place Animal Thing’ in 2023 was an exhibition at the MKF museum along with an audio visual poem -‘My name is Alice out of Wonderland.’ ‘Cell and I’ ‘Tortoise Nautilus Venus and Us’ and ‘Love thy Labyrinth’ are her other exhibition cum collaborative installations.
Her publications include ‘Nothing is Safe’ ‘Naalkavalayile Kuttichathan’, ‘The Little Book of Serendipity’, and in many anthologies. She has widely held poetry readings and was a speaker at the Glass house poetry festival by Art Mantram, the Mysuru Literary Fest and The Bengaluru Poetry festival- 2024
“Embedded in us are cultural experiences wrought in the fire of our observations, and we conduct experiments in the petri dish of our own self’s. The alchemy takes time because we are born with disjointed bodies and minds. Art is a tight rope walk towards wholeness, a reclaiming, re- membering and an anointing of what frivolously goes by the word Love. As a chronicler and creator, I prefer twilight zones where there’s both Presence and Absence. In the process I taste freedom, nature, creativity, love, god particle, call it by whatever name.”
