A conversation with Paribartana Mohanty

In this series of recorded encounters we speak with the participants of Onassis AiR to shed light on their artistic practices and needs, as well as to reflect on ways of being and working together. This afternoon I am very happy to welcome back Paribartana Mohanty. Paribartana is a storyteller working with various artistic media, such as video, lecture performance, painting, writing and curating. In addition to his individual work, he is also part of WALA, an artist collective based in Delhi engaged in public, community and site-specific art projects, public performances and guided tours in the city. In October 2019, Paribartana came to Athens as a participant of the (Inter)national Residency program of Onassis AiR. In this conversation we discuss about his research into art and labor and more specifically into the notion of art field cannibalism that he tries to tackle in his work through the design of game situations.