Vishal Jugdeo and vqueeram

vqueeram is a writer, researcher and teacher based in Delhi. They are interested in sex, feeling, and living/dying in their relations with forms of sociality, law and politics. At the Center for Law and Policy Research, Bengaluru, vqueeram teaches a course on intersectionality for various law schools in the country, and participates in research and policy work on the rights and concerns of the trans community in India. In their writing, vqueeram pays attention to the practices of imagination and freedom of queer/trans persons; whether building a life in a cemetary in Delhi, or in life writing - cinematic, authorial and political. vqueeram completed bachelors and masters degrees in political science at Delhi University. They have taught, given talks, seminars and workshops extensively, and their writing has been published in The Shortline Review, The White Review, Frieze, Huffington Post India, Akademi Magazine and The Wire among other esteemed contexts. 

Vishal Jugdeo is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles who works with video, installation, performance and sculpture to construct experimental approaches to narrative. Weaving together strategies from television, cinema and theater, his work emphasizes the layers of mediation that influence how we understand the unfolding present. Jugdeo has exhibited widely including solo presentations at the ICA Philadelphia, MOCA, Commonwealth and Council and LAXART in Los Angeles, and at the Western Front, Vancouver. Commissioned works have been featured in Performa, New York, Made in LA at the Hammer Museum, and at the Witte De With Center for Contemporary Arts, Rotterdam. Jugdeo completed an MFA at UCLA, and a BFA at Simon Fraser University. He is a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, and has received grants from Art Matters, California Community Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts, as well as residencies at Skowhegan, BOFFO and the MacDowell Colony. Jugdeo is Assistant Professor and New Genres Area Head in the Department of Art at UCLA.

Image: vqueeram and Vishal Jugdeo Does Your House Have Lions 2021. HD video with sound. (still). Courtesy of the artists.