Arka Sinha is a visual artist based in Kolkata. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Photography Design at the National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar. He probes into the transitionality of coastal landscapes and ecological disruptions, drawing from found objects, archival imagery, and alternate processes, simultaneously renegotiating the politics of photography as an extractive device.

Koumudi Malladi is a trans-disciplinary practitioner working at the intersection of art & culture, education, and mental health. Her practice is rooted in careful listening and long-term engagement, focusing on the unsaid and the unobvious aspects of the landscapes, communities, and lived experiences she encounters. She is particularly interested in how everyday spaces, memories, and cultural practices shape emotional and psychological well-being.

Lapdiang Artimai Syiem is a theatre artist based in Shillong, Meghalaya. Her practice draws from Khasi folklore and the oral narratives of her community, reinterpreting and adapting them into a contemporary context. Using her body in physical expression, she explores notions of identity, gender, memory and environmental concerns impacting her community. Her recent productions are Laitïam (a retelling of U Sier Lapalang) through a performance film and a theatre production, Ngan Hiar Sha Wah (I’m Going Down to the River) – a digital theatre piece on the Umkhrah river and Performing Journeys as part of the Welsh- Khasi Cultural Dialogues.

Malavika Byju and Kush Kukreja are conceptual practitioners working across photography, installation, and material investigation. Their practice examines how materials carry embedded histories of colonialism, ecological crisis, and institutional legitimation through processes that require interdisciplinary engagement. Working with materiality, alternative processes, and speculative documentation, they recontextualise overlooked substances into sites of inquiry, bridging material experimentation with detailed explorations of
representation itself.

Sudip Chakraborty works across multiple discipline as actor, writer, cinematographer and director. With a prior experience in theatre, translation and development sector, Sudip Chakraborty intends to tell unheard stories from various spectrum of the society while incorporating different medium of expression. His areas of interest are Local History, People’s Movements, Urban Working Class, Climate Change, Art Practices and their Documentation among others. He is currently studying Cinematography at Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata.

Untitled Kitchen is an experimental, moving, collective kitchen rooted in creating micro-collectives through space-making, using food as a catalyst for chance encounters. It functions simultaneously as a studio and an assemblage of people, both familiar and unfamiliar coming together in shared moments of making with the urgencies shifting according to the context. At its core, Untitled Kitchen is an attempt to nurture parallel forms of collective practice alongside our individual pursuits, as people engaged in diverse lives and creative work. We advocate for small, collective spaces that center love, solidarity, and collective betterment.

Vibin George is a visual artist and art pedagogue who interrogates the entanglements of caste, marginality, and ecology. Through his artistic and pedagogic research, he examines how these formations play a pivotal role in producing and protecting a perceptual order that forecloses possibilities of any liberatory becoming. He traces how this order actively conditions bodies, land, and regimes of visibility within the liberal frameworks. Within this context, his practice engages in decoding and recoding the semiotic regimes to generate new affective economies.