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CABF 2018 // Kadak Exhibitor: Upasana Agarwal

Upasana Agarwal co-organises a queer space in Kolkata, India. They illustrate a weekly blog on disability and sexuality and curate performances and art shows in the city. 

🔖 https://www.instagram.com/upasana_a/

Kolkata/Calcutta 

A short illustrated account of gender dysphoria experienced by a non binary person living and surviving a dual city stuck in its colonial past and proud Bangali heritage. A work in progress, it seeks to compare our colonised pasts and legislations to the imprisonment experienced by within a gendered body.

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Basha- Notes from a Queer Home

 A collection of postcards depicting experiences from those living together in a queer shelter. Illustrations accompanied by personal stories. 

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Personal Geometry

Illustrations tracing history through individual interactions with space while recalling the patterns of Mughal and Rajasthani architecture of North India. 

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Ghore Baire

Series featuring women reclaiming various avenues of their life, living a moment of tenderness and allowing themselves to be seen on their own terms. 

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We will be tabling at the Chicago Art Book Fair Nov 16-18th at the Chicago Athletic Association See you soon!

http://cabf.no-coast.org/

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CABF 2018 // Kadak Exhibitor: Supriya Tirkey

Supriya is an animation film-maker and Illustrator with deep fondness for films, forest, and culinary culture.  Her love for crafts led to making of a brand called ‘Little Green Trunk’, a book bindery that creates handcrafted journals. Seeking for a quiet life among the greens brought her to a quaint sea-side village of Goa. Her home studio is currently housed on a hill slope with wild animals and plants tumbling around her keen eyes.

🔖  https://supriyatirkey.tumblr.com/

Rustling Waters 

An illustrated poem based on a travelogue. Dedicated to the experiences of bonfire conversations with the self that start in the mountains and end at the sea.

We will be tabling at the Chicago Art Book Fair  Nov 16-18th at the Chicago Athletic Association See you soon!

http://cabf.no-coast.org/

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CABF 2018 // Kadak Exhibitor: Nandini Moitra

Nandini Moitra is a non-binary artist and illustrator based out of Kolkata, India. They co-organize a queer space in the city. They are the staff artist for Kajalmag.   🔖 https://www.instagram.com/nandini.moitra/

 Queering Bathrooms 

This mini zine explores bathrooms as queer safe spaces through a series of illustrated personal stories. The home is not always a safe space for trans and queer folk. The privacy of bathrooms often allows queer folks to explore themselves.    

 Lunar 

It is a set of twelve postcards depicting each sign of the zodiac. The postcards depict trans and queer folks in their personal spaces.  

Re-imagining mythologies

This series imagines a friendship between Sita and Surpanakha, two women who had been wronged by the heteropatriarchy.  

We will be tabling at the Chicago Art Book Fair Nov 16-18th at the Chicago Athletic Association See you soon!

http://cabf.no-coast.org/

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Journeys

A collection of printed works on trips, daily commutes, memories of travels, and being itinerant.

1. ATTACHMENTS Nausheen Javed Moving has been the only constant in most of my life. As a result, to keep my memories intact, I attach myself to the stuff inside those walls. Although now I can never imagine myself to be in the same place for long enough.

2. 100 DAYS OF TRAVELLERS IN RED Akhila Krishnan These everyday portraits are an impressionistic record of a hundred travelers on a specific London Overground line (with occasional tube portraits tucked in). Collected together and sequenced, the result is a moving volume of collective human experience.

3. NO MAMES GUEY Diana Chu Stories from a 9-state, 30-day road trip over the summer of 2017.Collage, film-photography, and passages typewritten on a 1940’s Corona.

4. PAIRS OF SHOES Akhila Krishnan Combining 3 color screen printing and digital printing; this set of 4 unique postcards attempts to capture and convey the materials, colors, textures, and shoes of India.

Nausheen Javed Is an Animation Filmmaker and Illustrator. Her first film was nominated in several film festivals in Europe and Asia. She works under the childhood name ‘Gojagaaji’, which meant rough scribbles, emphasises on the childlike qualities of expression and the ‘word-picture’ association. She feels it’s important to never leave behind the ability to express like a child. Thus she writes for adults. Be it film, her zines or illustrations are all derived from her works of poetry and writings of the diary. Diana H. Chu is an illustrator, designer, and zinester in Milwaukee. She explores the duality of chaos/order by experimenting with color and poetry on the printed page. Diana’s cut + paste aesthetic leverages analog media and a highly intuitive process. Her illustrations have been recognized by the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration Akhila Krishnan is a visual artist, film-maker and designer. Akhila’s practice explores the relationship between the material and the temporal, the still and the moving image; negotiating their knots of tension and connection. She is interested in exploring the boundaries of language and medium to discover new dimensions that are inherent within them. This act of translation and revelation is a crucial aspect of her practice.

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Body & Being

This series of illustrated zines and prints reflect on the body and self, from within and without.

1. SOLITUDE & COMMUNITY Upasana A A series of visuals that illustrate the relationship between queerness and physical space, how we experience these spaces in solitude and as community.

2. LE EXTRAÑO Diana Chu Alternative comic about the phenomenon of forgetting what you look like after watching a movie.

3. QUEER SELF PERCEPTION Nandini Moitra A series of reflective images on queer self perception

4. MEASURED EMOTIONS Nausheen Javed After moving countries, she realized it’s not just a new language to be learnt, but also the way of speaking, walking, listening, reacting… a range of new emotions. Sometimes requiring one to make additions, subtract and modify into the existing. The zine came up in the initial days of confusion, adjustment and hit and trials while figuring out “how to be”.

Upasana Agarwal co-organises a queer space in Kolkata, India. They illustrate a weekly blog on disability and sexuality and curate performances and art shows in the city.

Nandini Moitra is a non-binary artist and illustrator based out of Kolkata, India. They co-organize a queer space in the city. They are the staff artist for Kajalmag. Nausheen Javed Is an Animation Filmmaker and Illustrator. Her first film was nominated in several film festivals in Europe and Asia. She works under the childhood name ‘Gojagaaji’, which meant rough scribbles, emphasises on the childlike qualities of expression and the ‘word-picture’ association. She feels it’s important to never leave behind the ability to express like a child. Thus she writes for adults. Be it film, her zines or illustrations are all derived from her works of poetry and writings of the diary. Diana H. Chu is an illustrator, designer, and zinester in Milwaukee. She explores the duality of chaos/order by experimenting with color and poetry on the printed page. Diana’s cut + paste aesthetic leverages analog media and a highly intuitive process. Her illustrations have been recognized by the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration 

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Everyday Surreal

What is real? What is unreal? This series of experimental sequential zines ask questions about reality in our daily lives.

1. SUDDEN DEATH Diana H. Chu Deluxe poetry & art zine. Cut & paste aesthetic + tiger rugs and all things mystical.

2. LOST AND Nausheen Javed Ever lost a key/ a pen drive/ a valuable small little something? Felt stupid about yourself after? Pressurized your brains to track back each second of the memory? Is it worth mentioning and that too in a Zine? Why not and where else??? Why is the title incomplete? I’ll write about it when it’s found.

3. WOOLIES Diana H. Chu Did you know that woollybears morph into Isabella tiger moths? And as adults, they live for only a few days, spending their final hours questing for romance? This deluxe art zine is about the bittersweet romance of nature. It asks questions about how to live mindfully and live in the now.

4. SLEEP ANXIETY Nausheen Javed A zine about the simple act of sleeping and how I might need to learn it again.

5. CLOUD HOUSE Diana H. Chu Poetry & imagery collide to describe a psychedelic experience in the woods of Wisconsin.

Nausheen Javed Is an Animation Filmmaker and Illustrator. Her first film was nominated in several film festivals in Europe and Asia. She works under the childhood name ‘Gojagaaji’, which meant rough scribbles, emphasises on the childlike qualities of expression and the ‘word-picture’ association. She feels it’s important to never leave behind the ability to express like a child. Thus she writes for adults. Be it film, her zines or illustrations are all derived from her works of poetry and writings of the diary.

Diana H. Chu is an illustrator, designer, and zinester in Milwaukee. She explores the duality of chaos/order by experimenting with color and poetry on the printed page. Diana’s cut + paste aesthetic leverages analog media and a highly intuitive process. Her illustrations have been recognized by the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration.