Alongside being Lecturer in Moving Image at Brighton's School of Media, Dr King is a curator and multi-media artist with an extensive track record of worldwide projects. She has a particular focus on contemporary documentary and artist filmmaking in India, including its historical legacies and production contexts. She also founded and directs the transnational artists' network VisionMix.
Her newly curated project Loss and Transience brings together moving image artworks and documentary films by ten contemporary artists/filmmakers living and working in India today, or artists of Indian heritage based internationally. The films are linked by their protagonists’ state of transience at key moments, which provide insights into how day-to-day realities are being catalysed to affect change – while reflecting on present political and environmental concerns.
Highlighting the unique opportunity provided by the project, Dr King said: "The films brought to you in this inspiring online screening programme are by five leading artists of Indian heritage that would generally only be screened publicly beyond India in the context of international art biennales. The projects are an important insight into contemporary art and environmental debates.”
Loss and Transience combines a physical exhibition at the Hong-gah Museum in Taiwan (12 March - 2 May) with a series of online showcases of works from the exhibition. Between 19-27 March, for example, people can register to see five films from the exhibition on a rolling programme running round-the-clock.