mohit shelare

INTIMACY WITH WASTE

Drawing, Video and Toy Objects

Conflictroium Museum, Ahmedabad, India, 2024

CONTAMINATED ASSOCIATION AND FLOATING EXISTENCE

To Inhabit, With Care
conversation series by School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai, India, 2023.

Breathing on sewage infrastructures while listening, writing, and working; sinking inside the historical wastewater and its belief mechanism developing under the smart cities; this talk constructs a counter narrative of ecological and care politics via a thickening of the outcaste, toxic substances, and the unarrivable.

XENO KNOWING

Lecture-Performance, Foundation For India Contemporary Art,
Delhi, India, 2023

Pig sustaining on waste infrastructure and sewage lines coming out into the cities and uttering the voice that articulates something crucial. Noise that transplants our organs (pigs is suitable animal for human organ) as well as our possibility to imagine the concepts of toxicity, contaminations and inhabitants.

BREATH AFTER CROSSING YELLOW LINE

Performance, site-responcive, 2018.

The construction of a city emerges as the growth of abandoned infrastructure (Greater Noida). We found the site in this landscape to engage, the site was unused and covered with dust particles. The immersing process in the underground site comes up with sets of actions, post-actions, sounds, and drawings.

Performance, water, glasses

2017

ACTION NO - 9

छाप तिलक सब छीनी

Biometric, Performance, Text 2019

"CHHAAP TILAK SAB CHHEENI" is a collaborative project initiated by Mohit Shelare and Kaushal Sapre. Inspired by Amir Khusro's intimate description of the striping away of his symbolic identity just by meeting eyes with his spiritual mentor, Shelare and Sapre explore questions around contact, intimacy, control, and the making and unmaking of identity through contemporary biometric technologies.

NOWHERE

Performance, video, drawing, sculpture, and photographs.
2016

STUDIO VISIT

By Kabir Jhala
Delfina Foundation, London, UK, 2024

CURVE IN DESIRE

Wall Drawing, inside-out pots

sound performance interrupted by readings
Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India, 2023

TOXIC SUBSTANCE AND IMMEDIATE EXISTENCE

16:12 minute video projected on a screen

STUDIO CAMP, Mumbai, India, 2023.

INSOLEBAL SUBSTANCE AND SEPARATE EXISTENCE

Lecture-Performance, Foundation For India Contemporary Art,
Delhi, India, 2023

Examined the means of violence across multiple incidents and ideas. Deconstructing the theological and political beliefs of the self and materializing a New Buddhist reasoning into the conversation.

WALK IN RECOGNITION

05:24 minute video, 2022.

KADR

Performance, Objects, Drawings, Residues, Text.
Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon, 2019

“Kadr” is an investigation on the wrapping papers of local bread of the city of Beirut. That has produced the oil traces on wrapping papers. The performative research leads to the neighborhood while measuring, documenting, collecting, and understanding the food as energy and power.