Meenakshi Thirukode

Meenakshi Thirukode is a writer and artist exploring the intersecting histories of politics, resistance and visual culture. Her areas of research focus on the role of micro-politics, culture and collectivity within the realm of a techno-capitalist, transient network of individuals and institutions. Her recent projects include ‘Kitchen Table Talks’ (2023); ‘Disorganizing Metabolisms’ in collaboration with Food, Art, Research Network (2022); the ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ conference at MAC Birmingham (2018); and ‘Out of Turn, Being Together Otherwise’, exploring performance art histories in collaboration with Asia Art Archive at Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa (2018). Her chapter ‘Towards a Public of the Otherwise’, has been published in the Routledge Companion Series for Art in the Public Realm (2020). She was a Reading Resident and a contributor to the seminar US: Shaping Time at Stroom Den Haag, Hague (2022). She is the founder of School of Instituting Otherwise.