WALA & Kush Badhwar
WALA is a Delhi-based collective formed in 2009 by Akansha Rastogi, Sujit Mallik, and Paribartana Mohanty. Drawing from people known by their professions such as kabadiwala, ice-creamwala, or paaniwala, the deliberately missing prefix of WALA allows inhabiting multiple forms of belonging, associations, and affinities. WALA sees itself as producer of situations, encounters, devices, formats that allow dialogues to occur with, or without artists’ presence.
Kush Badhwar is a filmmaker interested in shifting definitions of traditional mass-media, collaborating with unorthodox actors and using artistic intervention for improvised and informal political engagement.