1Shanthiroad Showcase by our Artist-in-residence on Sunday | 5 PM
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Nov 11, 2025, 10:22:22 AMNov 11
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1Shanthiroad showcase by our Artist-in-residence Dr Chan Arun-Pina, Hemansingh Lutchmun and Various & Gould on Sunday, November 16th.
We look forward to seeing you.
Unfollowing Queer Domicidal Blueprints (Arun-Pina, 2025)
As part of the artist showcase, Chan will present visual excerpts from their chapter “Unfollowing Queer Domicidal Blueprints,” featured in this forthcoming book and emerging from their doctoral research on queer and trans student housing in India.
Unfollowing Queer Domicidal Blueprints introduces queer domicide — the intentional killing of queer homes — as both a spatial and affective condition of our times. This work maps how the architectures of cisheteronormativity—morally, psychically, and spatiotemporally—collude to unmake queer life.
Drawing from the transient housing experiences of LGBTQ+ students in India, Chan’s work exposes the commanding blueprints of the cisheteronormative family home: how it kills queer and trans potentialities through design, governance, and repetition. These domicidal architectures do not merely exclude; they discipline, moralize, and domesticate.
Through the visual language of warfare and spatial erasure, the work theorizes three operations of queer domicide—domifeticide, domitericide, and domipanopticide—each marking a strategy of destruction, containment, and surveillance.
To unfollow these blueprints is to see the home as a contested terrain—where queer and trans inhabitation must be reimagined through refusal, unbuilding, and the persistent act of transforming othered worlds into beings.
Screening:
Can you take care of my plants when I'm away (2025)
45min
Filmed at Mauritius's Chateau de Labourdonnais, a 19th-century sugarcane plantation house where his ancestors worked as indentured laborers, now still managed by the descendants of the French family who owned it, Lutchmun's Can you take care of my plants when I'm away (2025) shows present-day workers maintaining the estate's gardens while the artist speaks with his mother, who works there. They discuss Hindu rituals passed down in fragments through their family, then reincarnation, then who still labors on this land versus who visits it. The conversation moves between spiritual cycles and material ones, between ideas of return and repetition, and the enduring structures of access and labor.
Impressions of paper
Various & Gould is an artist duo from Berlin, working at the intersection of public space, and social engagement. Their projects explore themes like diversity, memory culture, and equality – through collage-based works, murals, workshops or interventions.
At 1Shantiroad, they are sourcing methods of paper-making for public interventions on monuments, like they‘ve been doing with the Monumental Shadows project. Further, their current research goes around the Matilda Effect – which is a term for the erasure of women’s achievements in history.
As part of the artist showcase, Chan will present visual excerpts from their chapter “Unfollowing Queer Domicidal Blueprints,” featured in this forthcoming book and emerging from their doctoral research on queer and trans student housing in India.
Unfollowing Queer Domicidal Blueprints introduces queer domicide — the intentional killing of queer homes — as both a spatial and affective condition of our times. This work maps how the architectures of cisheteronormativity—morally, psychically, and spatiotemporally—collude to unmake queer life.
Drawing from the transient housing experiences of LGBTQ+ students in India, Chan’s work exposes the commanding blueprints of the cisheteronormative family home: how it kills queer and trans potentialities through design, governance, and repetition. These domicidal architectures do not merely exclude; they discipline, moralize, and domesticate.
Through the visual language of warfare and spatial erasure, the work theorizes three operations of queer domicide—domifeticide, domitericide, and domipanopticide—each marking a strategy of destruction, containment, and surveillance.
To unfollow these blueprints is to see the home as a contested terrain—where queer and trans inhabitation must be reimagined through refusal, unbuilding, and the persistent act of transforming othered worlds into beings.
Screening:
Can you take care of my plants when I'm away (2025)
45min
Filmed at Mauritius's Chateau de Labourdonnais, a 19th-century sugarcane plantation house where his ancestors worked as indentured laborers, now still managed by the descendants of the French family who owned it, Lutchmun's Can you take care of my plants when I'm away (2025) shows present-day workers maintaining the estate's gardens while the artist speaks with his mother, who works there. They discuss Hindu rituals passed down in fragments through their family, then reincarnation, then who still labors on this land versus who visits it. The conversation moves between spiritual cycles and material ones, between ideas of return and repetition, and the enduring structures of access and labor.
Impressions of paper
Various & Gould is an artist duo from Berlin, working at the intersection of public space, and social engagement. Their projects explore themes like diversity, memory culture, and equality – through collage-based works, murals, workshops or interventions.
At 1Shantiroad, they are sourcing methods of paper-making for public interventions on monuments, like they‘ve been doing with the Monumental Shadows project. Further, their current research goes around the Matilda Effect – which is a term for the erasure of women’s achievements in history.
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