editor: ajaykumar
Ajaykumar is an artist; an academic at Goldsmiths University of London; a member of TrAIN, the research centre in Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, of the University of the Arts, London; and a curator.
Ajaykumar is also co-director of the shapes-design studio, designing playful furniture, lighting, and gardens, and works that come into 'being' through the play of those who acquire and frequent them.
His art practice, practical research and published theoretical enquiries are trans-disciplinary, intermedia, and single form, spanning the artistic disciplines of: internet art, video art, combined media installation, film, site-specific art, environmental art, performance/live art, design, architecture, dance, theatre; as well as the disciplines of philosophy, science and ecology. Underlying the diversity of disciplines, are specific inter-related thematic and formal concerns:
- Spectatorship, play, ludic processes, and co-creativity;
- The sculpting of space and interrogation of notions of 'non-anthropocentric
being', 'relational being', 'the being of a space'.
- Dynamics between science, art, technology, philosophy, and ecology: reflecting
on relations between human and environment.
Details at his personal site: www.ajaykumar.com
pages of madness embodies ongoing research at Goldsmiths, University of London and the Royal College of Art.
an aim of pages of madness is to engender experimental and creative responses to the theme of racism and its relation to mental health; and to further engagement with the theme.
pages of madness is created through a Millennium Trust Fellowship from the Peabody Trust.
the right of ajaykumar to be identified as the creator of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988