Ms Abhaya Rajani

As a dalit queer feminist and educator based in London, I am committed to constructing a dialogue to develop alternative anti-caste feminist pedagogy by archiving dalit ancestral knowledge(s). By synthesising art-making and my architecture training, the transdisciplinary practice weaves through varied mediums of installations, films, participatory workshops, durational performances, spatial research, translations and performative writing. 

Along with the art experimentations, I have co-founded the intergenerational Godhadi collective with my mother and late grandmothers, also co-founded Rakhan Productions with visual anthropologist Sam McNeil. I have exhibited work in the UK and internationally. As a recipient of the Stanley Picker Fellowship, I am currently working as the APR Programme Co-ordinator for Kingston and Visiting Lecturer at BA Fine Art. Recently awarded the British Art Council Funding for collaborative project, ‘Touching on Caste' in collaboration with Bloc Projects, Sheffield.

• MA Print at the Royal College of Art, London
• B. Arch. at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture, Mumbai