#nisha ramayya

[proserpnias]

"Mātangī reels through the jungle, singing loudly, doing as she pleases. Her name translates as 'going willfully' or 'roaming at will', and is a synonym for 'elephant' and 'cloud'. Sara Ahmed discusses the wilful subject: 'The wilful character insists on willing their own way, without reference to reason or command. Wilfulness could be described as a character perversion: to be wilful is to deviate, to will one's own way is to will the wrong way.'

Mātangī deviates, flaunting her talents in the margins of Hindu mythology. Like Sarasvatī, she plays the vīņā (Indian lute); she plucks the strings of a community of her own making, like Sappho. She is stagger and sweat, answering to earth, eroticism and the sixty-four performance arts."

Nisha Ramayya, States of the Body Produced by Love

[her-moth]

Poetry at Kirkdale Bookshop! Free <3

[thejaymo]

Still not 100% | Weeknotes

I went to Ignota Books’ 5th birthday event on Friday. As a contributor at large, I thought that I needed to show my face! I was an amazing event. Hilight’s include: Jennifer Higgie’s 40min long essay ‘Spirals Signify Evolution’. Nisha Ramayya and Paul Purgas, Shumon Basar gave a weird talk about the Hitchcock movie Vertigo (which obviously I haven’t seen). Sarah and Federico Campagna had an…

[pairedaeza]

स्मरदशा smaradaśā, f. state of the body produced by love (ten states are named: joy of the eyes, pensive reflection, desire, sleeplessness, emaciation, indifference to external objects, abandonment of shame, infatuation, fainting away, death)

Nisha Ramayya, from States of the Body Produced by Love

[kitchen-light]

The names of deities are points on a map; utter your flight paths home.

Nisha Ramayya, from “States of the Body Produced by Love”

[alwaysalreadyangry]

PENSIVE REFLECTION

 Imagine a time in which you feel happy. In your happiness, you imagine another time in which you feel unhappy. You are in bed, your love is in your arms; the room is cold and it belongs to you.

 This is the tower of the past. The battlements are formed of anthills, the anthills the curves of the goddess, the curves snakes agreeing sealing themselves away. Lookouts lie face down, mouths open to the earth, swallowing the matter of their warnings. Lookouts are snakes.

 In your unhappiness, you imagine another time in which you feel happy. You are standing, you catch sight of your love across the room. One or both of you is wearing a uniform. The room is warm; it does not belong to you.

 The tower is oversaturated and impossible to date. Lookouts’ mouths fill with earth, earth itching, itching converting warning to retch. Lookouts reduce the noise of their retching; snakes containing the warnings in the smoothed lines of their swallows.

 This is how to conjugate the old future tense.

(by Nisha Ramayya, from The White Review)

[zarfpoetry]

ZARF magazine presents:

POETRY

readings by L.Uziell, Nisha Ramayya and Vicky Sparrow

7pm, 11th March 2017 Wharf Chambers (Middle Floor) Wharf Street, Leeds

FREE but donations for poet costs are welcome and there will be a book & zine table!

About the Poets:

Nisha Ramayya’s pamphlets Notes on Sanskrit (2015) and Correspondences (2016) are published by Oystercatcher Press. Her work can be found in Datableed, Litmus, and Zarf. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Kent, and is a member of the Race & Poetry & Poetics in the UK research group.

Vicky Sparrow is completing a PhD on the poet-activist Anna Mendelssohn at Birkbeck, University of London. Her writing can be found in datableed, Kakania, Litmus, Intercapillary Space and The Literateur. Her first pamphlet Notes to Selves is published by Zarf.  

l.uziell is a person from the north who occasionally writes poetry but mainly despairs and reads poetry. Fuck the police

NOTE: Wharf Chambers is a members' co-operative, You do not need to be a member or guest of a member to attend this event UNLESS you wish to buy things the bar. Joining is £1, takes 48hrs to process and is very much encouraged. http://www.wharfchambers.org/membership/

[heavenlyyshecomes]

hi sarah do u have any favourite south asian diaspora poets, or just in general,

i have a presentation on it for my poetry course and idk where to start!!

Hi! I don't really read poetry much less by asian poets :( the poets I can think of rn are agha shahid ali, aimee nezhukumatathil, meena alexander, bhanu kapil, alok vaid-menon etc.

as for sa poets in general there's shastra deo, meena kandasamy, nisha ramayya, kamala suraiya das, vishal bhardwaj, nikita gill.

Also check out: matwaala, a friend recommended chen chen's twt where he posts poems by other poets regularly! if u want some theory to supplement your presentation there's meenakshi mukherjee's the anxiety of indianness (from the perishable empire) and k sachitanandan's that third space interrogating the diasporic paradigm. ik a lot of these are by indians bc I'm not really familiar w other sa authors

[bts-art]

DO IT (around the world)

do it is an ever-expanding set of creative instructions by leading artists – simple enough for anyone to do. The project first started in Paris in 1993 with Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist and artists Bertrand Lavier and Christian Boltanski.

In 2020, 30 artists from around the world are making brand new instructions for people to do at home, with do its from creative figures from the fields of art, music, poetry, fashion and design, including Virgil Abloh, Chino Amobi, Arca, BTS, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Alvaro Barrington, Grace Wales Bonner, Ian Cheng, Matt Copson, Shawanda Corbett, Counterspace, Jesse Darling, Aria Dean, Es Devlin, Demna Gvasalia, Aurelia Guo, Max Hawkins, Evan Ifeokya, Arthur Jafa, Carla Juaçaba, Dozie Kanu, Ligia Lewis, Kelsey Lu, Total Luxury Spa, James Massiah, Oscar Murillo, Jeremy O’Harris, Precious Okoyomon, Nisha Ramayya, Megan Rooney, Rachel Rose, Lorenzo Senni, Solange, Patrick Staff, Jenna Sutela, FKA twigs, Jan Vorisek, Leilah Weinraub and Hsu Che Yu.

You can find the new do its alongside a set of archival instructions intended for the home environment on a hub created by Google Arts & Culture g.co/doitaroundtheworld. New do its are uploaded weekly in May and June 2020 and shared on Serpentine’s Instagram @serpentineuk. Do its are also available through the Bloomberg Connects App.

Share your own creations using #doit and #doitaroundtheworld and please tag @serpentineuk so we can see what you’ve made.

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director at the Serpentine Galleries, initiated do it in Paris in 1993 with artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier, gathering recipes for artworks from twelve artists. Since then, more than 400 artists have contributed instructions, including founders Boltanksi and Lavier, plus Yoko Ono, Gilbert and George, Louise Bourgeois, Adrian Piper, Tracey Emin and Félix González-Torres—an eclectic mix of things that range from the active to the absurd and the philosophical. Over the nearly three-decade life of the project, more than 150 art spaces in over 15 countries have exhibited do it exhibitions and many new versions have appeared, such as do it (museum), do it (tv) and do it (in school).

The idea for do it (around the world) began when people quarantined due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Italian cities and elsewhere began making and sharing do its via social media in March 2020. ICI launched do it (home), a selection of artists’ instructions especially suited to be realised from home and shared across ICI’s global network of collaborators. Kaldor Public Art Projects, the world’s longest-running public art organisation launched do it (australia) in 2020 http://doit.kaldorartprojects.org.au/.

Project partners: Serpentine Galleries, Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York, Kaldor Public Art Projects in Sydney, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Google Arts & Culture

Online14 May - OngoingFREE

[erotoplasty]

Erotoplasty 7 (pt. 1)!

Issue 7 pt. 1 of Erotoplasty has emerged, thereby initiating the zine’s staggered valediction! This moiety of the meal is chock-full of all the essential vitamins and yet-to-be-discovered minerals one might(’nt) expect to find in Allen Fisher, Nisha Ramayya, Tongo Eisen-Martin, RTA Parker & Jèssica Pujol, Tom Crompton, Patrick Farmer & Trevor Simmons, Ed Luker, Mira Mattar, John M. Bennett, Fred Carter, Cleo Madeleine & Blythe Zarozinia Aimson, Lotte L.S., Jeff Hilson, Tommy Peeps, Maz Himyari, Mendoza, Sam Weselowski, Marcia Knight-Latter & Julia Rose Lewis, Kathryn Hummel, Maria Sledmere, Cai Draper, Paul Ingram, Antony John, Simon Marsh & Peter Hughes, Catherine Vidler & Tom Jenks, Kayleigh Cassidy, Wayne Clements, William Fuller, Duncan MacKay, Karol Kramer & Nico Vassilakis, John Wilkinson, T. Person, Eileen Tabios, and upfromsumdirt. Get ready to gourmandise!

Download the PDF here.

(Part 2 is currently hurtling towards tomorrow!)

[loneberry]

Currently en route to Glasgow for Arika’s Episode 10. 5 days of events with: Jay Bernard, boychild, Mijke van der Drift, Denise Ferreira da Silva, James Goodwin, Stefano Harney, Laura Harris, Nathaniel Mackey, Alexander Moll, Fred Moten, Arjuna Neuman, Nat Raha, Nisha Ramayya, Wu Tsang, Ueinzz, andFernando Zalamea.

More info here: http://arika.org.uk/programming/episode-10-means-without-end

Perhaps I can entice you with this photo from my practice? There will be harp, poetry, singing, tapes, electronics. Will also give a talk with my beau on Alice Coltrane, vortices, fluid dynamics and the wind.

Alex: “I can’t believe my name is listed between Fred Moten and Nathaniel Mackey”—fucking epic

[her-moth]

i n f o

[freeromying]

If colonial history is unassimilated by the system, the post-colonial body is the undigested matter, that which causes the blockage (another correlation: how easy to digest you are, how palatable your cooking and eating habits, how commonly sourced your vegetables, and how readily integrated you may be; the metaphor extends to food, literature, and people).

Nisha Ramayya, Threads

[pairedaeza]

Mātaṅgī is queen of the elephants... But Mātaṅgī does not own elephants, she moves with them. They clear paths for each other through the jungle-- elephants crashing through the tangle... Mātaṅgī reels through the jungle, singing loudly, doing as she pleases. Her name translates as 'going wilfully' or 'roaming at will', and is a synonym for 'elephant' and 'cloud'... मातङ्गी mātaṅgī, she whose limbs are exhilarated, intoxicated, inspired

Nisha Ramayya, from States of the Body Produced by Love

[thomasmartinnutt]

Patrick Farmer. Azimuth, The Ecology of an Ear, 2019.

Azimuth, the new book by Patrick Farmer, also features work by Thomas Martin Nutt, Susana Gómez Larrañga , Lotti V Closs, Richard Skelton, Carrie Olivia Adams, Helen Frosi, April Van Winden, Florence Sunnen, Lance Austin Olsen, Tomoé Hill, Chloë Proctor, Nisha Ramayya, J.R. Carpenter, Julia Bloch, Michael Pisaro, Clara de Asís, Fay Zmija Nicolson, Tess Denman-Cleaver, Joseph Clayton Mills, Amelia Ishmael, Emily Leon, Hannah Dargavel-Leafe and Mirella Salame.

Published by Oxford Brookes University.