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Ansuman Biswas works in a wide variety of media, but his central concern is in the intersection of science, industry and religion. |
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He is interested in traversing, transposing and translating across many different kinds of border. |
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his work has included directing Shakespeare in America, translating Tagore’s poetry from the Bengali, making underwater sculptures in the Red Sea, living with wandering minstrels in India, being employed as an ornamental hermit in the English countryside, travelling with shamans in the Gobi Desert, collaborating with neuroscientists in Arizona, touring with Björk, spending two days blindfolded on Exmoor, playing with Oasis, co-ordinating grassroots activists in Soweto, choreographing the dance of a radio telescope, being sealed in a box for ten days with no food or light, making a musical in a maximum security prison, running seminars on democracy for monks in a Burmese monastery, and even flying on a real magic carpet in Russia. |
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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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