Paribartana Mohanty
Five Million Incidents

About the Actant

Born in 1982 in Khurda, Paribartana Mohanty has an MA in History of Art from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi, (2006) and a BFA in Printmaking from Dhauli College of Art and Craft, Bhubaneswar, (2004). He participated in the SOMA Summer Programme 2018 and attended an intensive studio residency programme at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York (2016). Paribartana was one of the curators for Kochi Students’ Biennale, (2016). He was a recipient of the Visiting Artist Fellowship at South Asia Institute, Harvard University, Boston (2016), participated in Tokyo Wonder Site International Creator Residency (2014), won the FICA Emerging Artist Award (2011), and City as Studio 1, Sarai-CSDS Media Lab Associate Fellowship for Contemporary Art and Media Practices (2010). 

Act the Victim – Family Auditions schedules a series of interviews/meetings or performances with selected members of the artist’s family. They will search out new tools and methodologies to approach the question of ‘family’ as a collective or as a value in the time of growing "Nationalism", “Hindutva” and  "संघ परिवार". The artist wants to explore paradigms such as family intricacies and elastic relationships, dependency and vulnerability, hostile and predatory nature and through this exploration, perhaps  resolve his personal conflicts with his own family through art.