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Ajaykumar

Kenya
www.ajaykumar.com
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are not really singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward a montage that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people. Ajaykumar is an artist, Lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London, Member of the TrAIN: the research centre of the University of the Arts London, in Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, sometime curator, co-director of the shapes-design studio: which designs playful furniture, lighting, and gardens, and items that come into 'being' through the play of those who acquire or frequent them. Ajaykumar’s art is not the art object primarily but the concerns the possibilities of the creation of a sublime world that manifests in an ephemeral space between an art object and a spectator's experiencing of it; where art works come into being through the 'play' of others. His work deals with play and playfulness: how a work of art may come into 'being' through your imagination as a spectator. His work relates to Nature, about how we may connect with and think about Nature. This art is not so much about objects but about how we inter-act socially, with the world around us. He creates little worlds - special spaces or places - to contact our playful nature, our imagination, and our feelings about the sacredness of our lives and our relationships. These relationships are as much to do with our relationship with others, as they are with objects, and with ourselves. Ajaykumar explores particular dynamics between art, architecture, science, technology, philosophy and ecology. Critical in this research is relations between art and life, questions of spectatorship, notions of 'being', and the sculpting of space. Here he re-conceives classical Buddhist and Tantric art in contemporary form: eliciting notions of daily life as art. Engaging with the Buddhist concept of 'dependent origination', he develops the idea of a 'relational being' and the 'being of space', stimulating vital ecological questions. Ajaykumar's award-winning and critical acclaimed art practice is trans-disciplinary, intermedia, and single form, spanning the disciplines of: internet art, video art, combined media installation, sculpture, film, site-specific art, environmental art, performance/live art, design, architecture, sound art, dance, theatre, creative writing. Ajaykumar perceives his art practice as a ‘poly-tekhne-kal' practice. He prefers to use the term ‘poly-tekhne-kian' rather than ‘artist’ to describe his research, in part because the ancient Greek word ‘tekhne’ has a sense of practice and form that is of more than art: one that incorporates philosophy, science, and what one refers to today as 'craft' and technology’.
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untitled_08_02_01untitled_08_02_01 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

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untitled_pic_08_03_03untitled_pic_08_03_03 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_03_01untitled_08_03_01 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_21untitled_08_02_21 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to be viewed on their own, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' uploaded by other people.

untitled_08_02_20untitled_08_02_20 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_08untitled_08_02_08 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_07untitled_08_02_07 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_06untitled_08_02_06 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_05untitled_08_02_05 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_04untitled_08_02_04 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_03untitled_08_02_03 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_02untitled_08_02_02 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_09untitled_08_02_09 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_10untitled_08_02_10 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_11untitled_08_02_11 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_19untitled_08_02_19 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_18untitled_08_02_18 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_17untitled_08_02_17 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_16untitled_08_02_16 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_15untitled_08_02_15 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_14untitled_08_02_14 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_13untitled_08_02_13 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_02_12untitled_08_02_12 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the relational montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

audio/sound
video/animation

untitled_08_03_01 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.

untitled_08_03_02 2008
The 'art works' placed in Ajaykumar's gallery page are less singular, individual works to stand alone, but rather are 'elements' only toward the montage of chaos and jukebox that he is aspiring to create with 'elements' from other people.