Editorial Design
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Reality Research Center

2024
Helsinki

Annual report for a community centre for performance art and research

I was commissioned to design the annual report / Vuosikertomus for the Reality Research Center, which describes itself as "... a collective of artists engaged in performative adventures. Our shared aspiration is to observe, question, and renew reality by creating performances." The report employs visually rich metaphors, with abstract and fluid layouts that reflect the spirit of TTK's performance initiatives.

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Todellisuuden Tutkimuskeskus

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Consent of the Governed: Race/Gender, Constitution & Kink

2022
Delhi / Kassel

Design for a publication series exhibited at documenta15

I was commissioned to design the first two volumes in this ongoing publication series, which calls upon artists, organisers and kinksters to think about our positionality, desires and their relations to social strictures around us. Contributors come from multiple global locations; doing anti-racism work, anti-caste work, organising and thinking of Indigenous rights, Trans* rights, feminisms, BDSM, Sex Work and more.

Curated & Edited by: Vidisha-Fadescha and Shaunak Mahbubani | Contributors: Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Dhrubo Jyoti, Latoya Aroha Rule, MF Akynos, Jyotsna Siddharth, Khaleb Brooks, and Kinkinella

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Party Office & After Party Collective

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UrbanApa X Ateneum: In the Deep / On the Surface

2023
Helsinki

Visual Identity for a Contemporary Performance Festival

A dynamic visual identity centered around a texture in motion. An experimental video-based poster & event communications. The thematic landscape of the festival was in the deep / on the surface. The curators ask: What kinds of things are present and in motion? Already identifiable? What kinds of things are just taking shape? What is surfacing in different contexts? Or what kinds of things are under the surface or in the depths? How can working and doing be many things at once – deep, pleasurable, light, subversive? Playful, feminist and communal? Or utopian?

Curated by Emmi Venna and Sonya Lindfors.

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UrbanApa at Ateneum Museum

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Core

2018-2020
Helsinki

Ethnographic research reports for Core, which focused on co-creation of new services for women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health in India, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania.

Scope Impact (previously known as M4iD) is a social impact company, accelerating social change at scale. They are based in Helsinki, Finland, and their work in equality, gender and health spans Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. "Core is a pioneering three-year project (2018–2020) aiming to better understand, equip and empower women to lead healthier sexual and reproductive lives. Moving beyond vertically-driven thinking about care-provision, Core charts a way forward to better respond to dynamic sexual and reproductive health care-seeking behaviours among women in India, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania. It combines human-centered design and interdisciplinary approaches to co-create new solutions for women’s sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing." - excerpt from thisiscore.org. When I was commissioned for this project, I adapted the Core brand identity and illustrations for diagrams, report decks and the Life-Course tool.

Design & Research team: Priyam Sharda, Shalini Subbiah, Jennifer Helfer Paavola, Rashmi Jagdish, Jarkko Kurronen, Laura Seppälä

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Scope Impact OY

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Infragraphy Vol 2

2019
Espoo

Student publication / Essay / Contemporary art / Circuit bending / Inequality

from Samir Bhowmik's blog post: INFRAGRAPHY Volume 2. is a compilation of critical student artworks and short essays dealing with the materialities of media technologies and their environmental implications. These works and texts are the outcomes from the course ‘Media and the Environment’ in the Fall of 2019 at the Department of Media, Aalto University. The course was a series of scholarly readings about and around the themes of media including media’s relations and impacts on the so-called Anthropocene, thermocultures of media, ecologies of fabrication, media and plastics, Internet of Things, Planned Obsolescence, e-waste, and media’s energetic landscapes. A key approach of the course was also introducing artistic methods and practices that could address emerging media materialities. The final exhibition of the course was a collection of student artworks as a response to the contemporary discourse of political economy of media and related environmental implications.

Editor_Samir Bhowmik | Authors_Gurden Batra, Ameya Chikramane, Punit Hiremath, Eerika Jalasaho, Reishabh Kailey, Leo Kosola, Kevan Murtagh, Surabhi Nadig, Takayuki Nakashima, Julia Sand, Liisi Soroush, Hanna Thenor Årström

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Aalto Medialab