November 5th, 2021

FUTURE FORMS AND ALTERNATIVE METHODS, SESSION THREE

a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word. Kal.

Moderated by Aziz Sohail, with speakers Promona Sengupta, Sandev Handy, and Sofia-Layla Afsar.


Aziz Sohail is an art curator, writer and researcher whose work is focused on building interdisciplinary connections and supporting new cultural and pedagogical infrastructures. His current research is a meditation on the longue-durée intersections of sexuality and colonialism with migration, law, and identity through the work of practitioners who navigate empire(s) and its afterlives.

Promona Sengupta is an artist, activist, academic, and curator. A 2020–2021 resident at the House of Kal Berlin, she is a current doctoral fellow at the International Research Center: Interweaving Performance Cultures at FU, Berlin. and co-founded Mo’Halla along with Jyothidas KV and Prabhas Tripathy, a pop-up space for progressive art, culture, and politics also based in Berlin.

Sandev Handy is an artist, curator, and art educator based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Currently he serves as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sri Lanka, co-curator of the House of Kal Colombo, and a member of interdisciplinary artist collective The Packet.

Sophia-Layla Afsar is a lawyer-turned-therapist and situation artist based in Karachi, Pakistan. Her work uses humor to highlight trans and neurodivergent perspectives.