ajaykumar

Selected Article Publication/Public Lectures/Conference papers

Public Lecture

Ajaykumar: University of the Arts London
TrAIN – summer public lecture series, 3rd May, 2005
‘humans are not the centre of life...humans are not even central to life’ –
bionomics and its pertinence to contemporary art, architecture, and design
(TrAIN is a joint research centre, of Chelsea, Camberwell and Central St. Martins’ Schools of Art, in field of ‘trans-national art, identity & nation’.)

Articles

Ajaykumar: ‘Sacred concrete? - Towards a Notion of Being, and Notion of
Narrative Construction in contemporary non-anthropocentric
Space-time’, Chakra – Tidskrift för indiska religioner (Swedish trans.
Chakra - Journal of India Religion). vol. 4 December 2005, pp. 46-60.

Ajaykumar: ‘Dynamics of psycho-spheres’, Context: Journal of the Development Organisation
for Nature, Arts and Heritage, vol. 2, no. 2, December 2005 pp 37-50

Ajaykumar: ‘Towards a non-anthropocentric conception of space-time, and an art of
spectatorship, Concerning the films “Tokyo Story” and “An Autumn Afternoon”,
directed by Yasujiro Ozu’, South African Journal of Art History, vol. 20, no. 1,
2005.

Ajaykumar: ‘Zen and the Art of Peer and Self Assessment in Inter-Disciplinary, Multi-Media,
Site-Specific Arts Practice: A trans-cultural approach’, Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education vol. 2, no.3, 2004, pp131-142.
http://www.extenza-eps.com/extenza/loadPDF?objectIDValue=35358
http://assessing-groupwork.ulst.ac.uk/paper3.html

Ajaykumar ‘A hypothesis of “being” and of “mind”...’, in C. Soddu, (ed.) Generative Arts 2004,
Proceedings of 7th International Conference, Milan: Milan Polytechnic, vol. 2, 2004,
pp. 264-268.

Ajaykumar: "The 'feminine principle' in Butoh: a methodology that spans history, cultures or
disciplines?" Gender Forum, No. 7, May 2004: Anybody’s Concerns II:
Conceptions of the Body
Readable at: http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de

Ajaykumar: “Butoh and transcending the identity of the sex - Towards a ‘tantric’ interpretation
of Sankai Juku’s 'Kagemi'”, Gender Forum, no.5, October, 2003: Gender
Debat(tl)ed: Gender and War.
Readable at: http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de

Poster Presentation

M-I I-M: racism, mental illness and marginal narratives, a poster presentation at ISEA2006/ Zero One San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, San Jose, California, USA, August, 2006, viewable:
http://01sj.org/content/view/576/145/

Conference Papers

Ajaykumar: Polytecnico di Milan: Generative Arts 2004, presentation of short
paper – published in conference proceedings tome, practical
presentation of pages of madness, and poster design. Dec. 2004

Ajaykumar: University of Lund, Sweden, Ritual Practices in Indian Religions
and Contexts: ‘Sacred Concrete?’ Dec. 2004

Ajaykumar: AHRB Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory, and History, University of
Leeds, The Architecture of Philosophy/The Philosophy of
Architecture: “Conceiving and re-conceiving a 'poly-tekhne-kal'”,
July 2004
Abstract at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cath/congress/2004/programme/paper_index.shtml

Ajaykumar: Brighton University and LTSN, Shared Visions. “Zen and the Art
of Peer and Self-Assessment in Inter-Disciplinary, Multi-Media
Site-Specific Arts Practice - A trans-cultural approach.”, Sept. 2002.

Research Awards

2001-3 AHRB Research Project "Uses of Ma: towards a methodology for transforming a Japanese aesthetic paradigm into trans-cultural forms".

2001-3 Goldsmiths Centre for Excellence in Learning Technology Fellowship Pioneered initiatives in the employment of information technology in performance pedagogy: theory and practice. Research outcomes were presented in a showcase event at Goldsmiths in June, 2003.
see http://www.gold.ac.uk/learning/fellows/0203.html#ajaykumar

ajaykumar@ajaykumar.com

phone: +44 (0)20 7837 9001