B a - r i y a


Solo & Duo (with Riya Raagini) works of
Pratyush Pushkar a.k.a. Ba.
Pratyush Pushkar, also known as ba, is a queer transdisciplinary artist, poet, and writer based in New Delhi, India.
Their expansive practice interlaces ecological listening, decolonial inquiry, and meditative, poetic engagements with subjective consciousness(ing). Working across sound, language, translation, and digital materialities, ba constructs immersive, research-led experiences that reframe perception, temporality, and relational intelligence.
At the heart of ba’s methodology is an insistence on alternative epistemologies—ways of knowing that center queer cognition, non-cooperation, intuitive architectures, and modes of listening beyond extractive or anthropocentric frameworks. Their practice functions as a living archive of sonic and poetic gestures that foreground vulnerability, attention, cognitive compassion and transformative slowness.


Kalachakra gathers temporal hacks within an archive of translated Hindi poetry spanning epochs. Synthesizing fragments in Hindi poetics with contrapuntal plead and spirituality, BaRiya’s anthology represents language’s quantum and inherited nature. Or with what they describe as »chants and lore emanating from language’s dips into temporal devices, of disrememberment, of devotion, of ruins, of elsewhere(s), of waiting, of delays; of restfulness.«

Commissioned by TBA21 Academy and Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary for The St _age-
"Octo-Durga is a “journey of unearthing multi-dimensional oceanic sensory and para-sensory conversations”. It is a multimedia manifestation questioning the obsolete dualities of humanity and nature, of earth and mind, of technology and culture. Created together with Eduardo Navarro and the Indian artists BaRiya (Riya Raagini and Pratyush Pushkar), Octo-Durga invites us to dive into a state of mind that connects with an underwater world where tentacular and meditative visions speculate about newforms of living based on solidarity and communality" - TBA-21
