Essay
Accessing Queer Futurity Through an Exploration of Pre-Modern Castration
Through the queering and exploration of pre-modern castration, this study aims to establish the significance of connecting the past, present, and the future via various channels of queer theory to pave the way towards a hopeful queer futurity. In... More
Essay
Dissensus and Grievability in Felix Gonzales-Torres' Untitled (Portrait of Ross in LA), 1991
In this paper, I argue for the importance of what Jacques Rancière terms “dissensus” in queer contemporary art, especially as exemplified in Felix Gonzalez-Torres' Untitled (Portrait of Ross in LA.) 1991. Through a critical analysis of the artwork,... More
Mixed Media
Queering Culture: Saree, Seva, Sajaavat
An exploration in displacing cultural objects from their cultural contexts, by stripping them of their regressive and archaic heteronormative connotations. Queering them merely by experiencing them as a queer body—in an unremarkable, ordinary way.... More
Other
When it Rains at Home, a Space of Memory
Constantly existing in two different places at once, my childhood room on the left, the first apartment I lived in alone on my right, and me in the middle; I am the spaces I have lived in, I am my furniture, I am my walls, and these spaces, this... More
Publication
Alien Here, a Tale of Becoming in Nine Parts
A creative narrative zine based on Sarah Ahmed’s Feminism is Sensational. It tells the story of an alien creature, that is not born, but must build itself. There is no map or plan for it to follow, it has no one to look to, and thus does not... More
Creative Writing
Celestial Spider Light Worlds
Making a world/fabulation by merging spiders and light in symbiosis. Based on ideas by Donna Haraway, Kim De Wolff, Elizabeth Grosz, and Stacy Alaimo
Work by
Amaaya Dasgupta
Writer, Artist
“My work mostly experiments with themes of sexuality and sensuality, the politics of body and gender, and the ideas of the self as a private and social being – always transient, always in flux. It is...” [More]