Biography
Mriganka Madhukaillya (born 26 Jan’ 1978, India)
Studies 2001-03 National Institute Of Design, Ahmedabad, India
Post Graduation Diploma in Film & Video
1996-99 Fergusson College, Pune, India, Bachelor of Science in Physics
Contact address house # 10, Narengi Housing col, Narengi, Guwahati -781026, India
Telephone +91 361 2642515/ 91-98640-17064
e-mail bluevault2001@yahoo.com
URL: www.desiremachinecollective.net
Mriganka Madhukaillya is a visual artist and teacher of media & Film. Mriganka (2004) co-founded the media collective, “Desire Machine”, currently organizing an international residency & workshop for South & Southeast Asian artists.
Currently working as Senior Lecturer, Communication design, Department of Design,Indian Institute ofTechnology, Guwahati. Teaching Video, New Media studies and analysis. Mriganka’s work has been shown both nationally and internationally and he has parcitipated in many residencies and workshops.
Workshop/Residency:
2007, Coast International artists workshop, Liverpool.
2006, Werkleitz Gescelschaft e.v residency, Halle, Germany.
2006, Khoj Kolkata International artists workshop, Kolkata
Filmography/ Work:
2007, Untitled, a video triptych
2006 “passage”, an experimental three channel video as part of site-specific Installation
organized by Khoj International artist workshop, Kolkata.
“Aliyah”, (return home), digital video, 27 mins
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
“About body, borders and other things”, digital video, 8 mins
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
2005 “ALFA BETA”,miniDV/found footage single channel video loop/sound/10 min loop
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
“DAILY CHECKUP”, miniDV/experimental two channel video loop/sound/8 min loop
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
“D.A.N.”, collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
“L.O.H.” (Line of Hunger), DV/sound/colour/9 mins
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
2004 “Politics of real time”, a multimedia installation/mini DV/four channel video loop/sound/10 min loop
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
“Once upon a time, Guwahati”, a documentary film on the urban transformationon/ mini DV/ 31 mins
collaborative work as part of Desire Machine Collective
2003 “Starring Anju Shrivastava” , , a short film sponsored by Kodak, (35mm)
“Images of Mourning” , a documentary film on the Gujarat carnage/ mini DV/ 26 mins
“Mumu”, a fiction film, assisted and co-scripted
2002 “End of Nature” , a experiment film with a social message/ DigiBeta/sound/colour/5 mins
“To Vasco Popa”, an experimental film, a tribute to Yugoslav poet, Vasco Popa/DigiBeta/ 4:52 mins
Exhibition & Screening
2006 Aliyah (return home)/ Francke Foundation gallery, Halle, Germany, “Moving Spirits” exhibition
“Ghost in the machine” an exhibition curated by Pooja sood, Appejay media gallery,New Delhi.
About body, borders and other things/ Daily check up/, “Short Shorts, Curated by Sharmila Samant
Goethe Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai
About body, borders and other things/ Daily check up/, “Impossible India” , Parallel Economies in
Contemporary Art, Frankfurter Kunstverein Curated by Sharmila Samant
2005 Daily check up/ Alfa Beta/ Disturbed area network/ “A Notebook on geography” , Khoj Studio, New Delhi.
L.O.H/ “Globalization @ Hunger ” in SESC, Pinheiros, Sao Paulo Brazil /
House of World Social Forum India , , PortoAlegre, Brazil.
2004 Politics of real time/ International Symposium,
“Towards a New Asia: Transnationalism and Northeast India” , Guwahati.
2002 End of Nature/ Indian retrospect of experimental films in Chicago Spring Filmmakers,
a film festival curated by Monica Bhasin
Seminar:
Presented a paper in Symposium on “public Sphere-Private Sphere: Is the boundary collapsing in contemporary Indian art practice”? On the closing ceremony of the Golden Jubilee at the Lalit Kala Kendra, Bhuvneshwar, orissa.2005
Curation:
2006 Curated a new media exhibition at IIT Guwahati “ Facing the code”.
2008(forthcoming) Inner lines : positing a visual exhibit on transnationalism and the concepts of border and network in Guwahati in collaboration with Khoj and Panos south asia.