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international interdisciplinary arts |
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Ansuman Biswas works in a wide variety of media, but his central concern lies between science, work and religion. |
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He is interested in traversing, transposing and translating across many different kinds of border. |
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Over the last few years his work has included directing Shakespeare in America, translating Tagore’s poetry from the Bengali, designing underwater sculptures in the Red Sea, living with wandering minstrels in India, being employed as an ornamental hermit in the English countryside, touring with Björk, spending two days blindfolded in an unknown place, travelling with shamans in the Gobi Desert, playing with Oasis, collaborating with neuroscientists in Arizona, co-ordinating grassroots activists in Soweto, being sealed in a box for ten days with no food or light, making a musical in a maximum security prison, re-designing Maidstone High Street, being a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, running seminars on democracy for monks in a Burmese monastery, being confined to a gothic tower for forty days and forty nights, and even flying on a real magic carpet in Star City, Moscow. |
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Improvisation and play are important elements in his practice, and at its core is the technique of vipassana meditation. |
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