Make yourself at home | a conversation with Imaad Majeed

In this episode, Tasneem talks to Imaad Majeed, a poet, sometimes DJ and often artist, from Sri Lanka (/Ilankai). They talk about their multidisciplinary arts practice rooted in themes of belonging to Land, about their project, KACHA KACHA, a trilingual performance collective that invites artists, musicians, singers, rappers and poets to perform at working class bars to perform original material in Sinhalese, Tamil and English. Imaad sometimes performs his own poetry which is inspired from his past life as a journalist, his relationship with his motherland and his interest in language. As artists hailing from Sri Lanka and India respectively, Imaad and Tasneem also talk about the politics of Diaspora that Asian artists have to contend with when showing work internationally, compare art scenes between India, Sri Lanka and the West and discuss gatekeeping in the art world, touching upon class divides and how colonialism has impacted our psyches.