Dr. Srajana Kaikini

Dr Srajana Kaikini works transdisciplinary across curatorial, artistic and philosophical grounds. She received her PhD in Philosophy from Manipal Centre for Humanities, and did her Masters in Arts and Aesthetic from JNU. She was at de Appel Art Centre’s Curatorial Programme in 2012-13, is the recipient of 2013 FICA Research Fellowship and was Curator at KK Hebbar Gallery and Arts Centre (2015-2019) at Manipal. Her recent curatorial projects include Searching for the present, where? Being - becoming in Akbar Padamsee’s figurations (1995 - 2006)  (ongoing) at the Guild Gallery, Alibaug, Backstage of Biology (2019), at Archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Mukhaputa (2017) at the KK Hebbar Gallery and Arts Centre and Vectors of Kinship (2016) at the 11th Shanghai Biennale. She has been resident curator at the Delfina Foundation, London and the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York and is a regular contributor to writing platforms on philosophy and aesthetics. Her academic writing has been published in journals such as Ethical Perspectives, Voices in Bioethics, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Kunstlicht, Journal for Cancer Research and Therapeutics amidst others. She is on the Editorial Boards of SciPhiWeb Repository of Reflections on Science, Philosophy and Gaming and Barefoot Philosophers and a member of the Bioethics Forum-Collaborative for Palliative Care. She is presently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences at Krea University, India.