Born 1960, Punjab, India
Video and digital media artist
Artist's statement
I am interested in the underlying visual poetry, the distilled essence and critical processes that underpin our experience, and how there is an infinite weave between social and global processes and the personal and emotional markers which construct the dramas within our often mundane lives. Growing up with a rich mixture of fantastical Indian Cinema and sounds, surreal art, modern jazz, rock, punk and world musics, among other things gave me an impetus to continually explore different juxtapositions of form and ‘cultural’ approaches, while at the same time developing an engagement with various social movements and race politics in particular. Common aesthetic strands in my work include occurrences of threes and triptychs, non-linearity of narrative, and multiple re-formatting of a work to allow its core concept to better emerge.
Exhibitions
Chuhan has a particular interest in migrant and Black art, activism, and grass roots production. Collaborative work with other artists, particularly writers and performers, has been of continued interest along with his exploration of the wider processes and social contexts in which the production of aesthetic and cultural meaning takes place.
His work has been screened, exhibited, and published internationally and includes:
Resonance, installation shown at ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) Paris, 2000
From Punjab to Football, video for Manchester United Football Club, 2001
Boundless Sky, a touring 3-screen Asian dance installation, 2002 (UK tour)
Terminal Frontiers, moving image installations for Virtual Migrants with Keith Piper, 2002-5 (UK tour)
From A Handful Of Seeds poster presented at ISEA 2006 in San Jose, USA.
Rekindle, interactive installation on permanent display at the Manchester Museum, also shown at the American Museum of Folk Art, New York, 2006
Exhale artists’ DVD production for Virtual Migrants, 2007
No Trace short film and installation with live poetry performance, 2007
What If I’m Not Real installation for Virtual Migrants exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2007, San Diego, USA.
Contact details
Kuljit Chuhan
Phone: +44 (0)161 865 4167
Fax: +44 (0)870 122 1916
Mobile: +44 (0)7971 415191
Email: kooj@kooj.net
Website: www.kooj.net
