YCP 2025 Fellow
Jagannathan Krishnan
From the landscapes of India
Current Practice
Independent filmmaker & writer, self identifies as medium agnostic artist exploring myth, narcissism and the politics of urban spaces through inter disciplinary forms and speculative narratives.
Bio
I’d like rather mention proposal notes and blue prints as a more relevant body of work that I would like to do in future.
A game for storytelling & empathy, a new model for political representation, a linguistic map, an homage to letter writing as urban folk form, a work in progress novel, bunch of unpublished poetry and art.
A study on Bir Tawel, a fictional country, speculative papers on invented disciplines. A few narrative feature scripts. A mythmaking project on Swagannathan a fictional avatar. Some songs that I want to make music with.
Focus Areas for Exploration
I’m interested in engaging with different frameworks of thought and expression across disciplines and mediums. Possibly straddling the arts, sciences and design.
Some key words and phrases for me are “ Sublime & ridiculous “, Multiple meanings” , “Horizontal growth”, “cross pollination” , “Osmosis”, “Narrative meets critical”, “ Memetic & Mythic”, “ Myth making”, “ Ironic Narcissism “, Meta”, “Gibberish”.
I like understanding structures of power, I like figuring out interesting takes on expressing resistance through speculative narratives, myth and art. I also like solving real world problems and laying blue prints for the future