themochu@gmail.com

b. 1983, India
Currently in Delhi and Istanbul.

Mochu works with video and text arranged as installations, lectures and publications. Ideas around anxiety, futurity, and weird selfhoods, particularly emerging out of large-scale technoscientific paradigms and the knots of international mobility, feature prominently in his works.

Recent projects have explored cyberpunk nostalgia, corporate horror, mad geologies and psychedelic subcultures. Mochu is the author of the books Bezoar Delinqxenz (Edith-Russ-Haus + Sternberg Press, 2023), and Nervous Fossils: Syndromes of the Synthetic Nether (Reliable Copy + KNMA, 2022). He is a recipient of the Edith-Russ-Haus Grant for Media Art (2020-22), and his works have been supported by Ashkal Alwan, India Foundation for the Arts and The Sarai Programme, with exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, Sharjah Biennial 13, 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale and transmediale:BWPWAP.

2008: Graduate Diploma in Film and Video Communication, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, IN

2023: Bezoar Delinqxenz, published by Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst and Sternberg Press, DE/UK
2022: Nervous Fossils, published by Reliable Copy and KNMA, IN

2022: Sentient Picnic, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, DE

2023: Rencontres Internationales, Paris, FR
2023: Artists Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2023: Artists Film International, Project 88, Mumbai, IN
2022: Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
2022: Time Travel Across Many-Worlds, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2021: VisionMix: Loss & Transience 2, videoclub UK + Hong-Gah Museum Taipei, TW
2019: (postponed) Home Works Forum 8, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, LB
2018: 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA, Brisbane, AU
2018: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, IN
2018: Apple in Dream Mode, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, IN
2017: What time is it? Convened by Sarai-CSDS and Raqs Media Collective, Delhi, IN
2017: Tamawuj, Sharjah Biennial 13, Sharjah, AE
2017: Hangar for the Passerby, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi, IN
2016: Metabolisms: Exposure 8, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, LB
2016: Life in the Deep, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, IN
2015: IFA showcase, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore, IN
2015: Signs Festival, Kochi, IN
2013: Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, IN
2013: Transmediale BWPWAP, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE