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.
 

As co-founder of Bariya Studio, a transdisciplinary platform led with artist Riya Raagini, ba engages in multiform projects that include:
– Ecological and bioacoustic radio broadcasting
– Collaborative sound art and performative installations
– Archival curation of decolonial and queer sonic lineages
– Multimedial poetic translations (particularly across Hindi and English)
- Transdisciplinary Methodologies
 

Processing through journaling of :

‘अकर्मण्य ब्लूज़ (Inactivity Blues)’ – a poetic inquiry into agency, inertia, and radical rest;
‘निर्भीक श्रवण (Fearless Listening)’ – a sonic practice of deep attention and anti-instrumental listening;
‘स्थावर उत्साह (Joy in Stationed)’ – an exploration of groundedness, immobility, and the ecologies of presence.

 

Ba’s research interfaces with themes such as:

– Queer temporalities and disoriented embodiment
– Post-human and post-verbal listening methodologies
– Digital tactility and the politics of interface
– Decolonial translation as poetic infrastructure
– Cultural philosophy in Hindi linguistic traditions
 

Their approach holds an ethical and aesthetic commitment to non-linear pedagogy, spiritual inquiry, and compassionate inquiries into collective sense-making. They are often drawn to interdisciplinary collaborations, particularly those that bridge the sonic with the textual, and the intuitive with the archival.