Swati Arora

Project at the MaCI

Dr. Arora’s current project engages with the intersections of coloniality, geography, and racialisation as read through aesthetic practices, archival traces, nonhuman creatures, and embodied experiences in postcolonial Delhi. It explores how performance and visual arts contend with the densely entangled processes of urbanisation, ecological crises, and sociopolitical environment, while navigating the dynamics of class, caste, gender, sexuality, and ethnic violence. In addition to its political focus on Delhi, this research is situated within the international conjuncture of transnational dialogues around public space and belonging, galvanised by anti-caste activism, anti-racist pedagogies, and abolitionist futurities.  

Her research is collaborative and experimental and is committed to fostering a bridge between scholarship and creative practice. Alongside working on a monograph based on this research, she is excited to immerse herself in the interdisciplinary environment at MaCI and engage with artists and researchers in the city of Grenoble.