Adivasi futurism

Artists and Creators

• Subash Thebe Limbu (NP)

Curators, Theorists & Critics

• Priteegandha Naik

Discussions

• Vijay Prashad, Anna Stirr, Pallavi Gupta, Jairus Grove, Monica Gosh, Anju Parvathy Biju, Nudrat Kamal, Sadaf Padder, Ian Bellows, Aqsa Mengal, Mangalika de Silva, Ned Bertz, Nikita Das, Ninad Pandit, Tabinda Mahfooz Khan, Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Kalzang Dorje Bhutia, Charisma Lepcha, Mabel Denzin Gergan, Elspeth Iralu, Sara Smith, Subash Thebe Limbu, Shalini Kakar, Aatika Singh, M. Shobhana Xavier, Prateek Paul, Maha Ali, Jan Brunson, Pallavi Gupta, "UH Manoa Center for South Asian Studies Spring Symposium 2024: South Asian Futures", University of Hawai'i at Manoa, April 10-12, 2024.
• Osheen Siva, Subash Thebe Limbu, K.A. Geetha, Priteegandha Naik, "Formations – Adivasi and Dalit Futurism: Artists Subash Thebe Limbu and Osheen Siva in Conversation", CADALFEST (Celebrating Adivasi and Dalit Arts and Literature Festival), Bonington Gallery, Online, India and Nottingham, October 20 2022.

Exhibitions & Catalogues

2023

• Okkoota ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ, April 2023, Arts House, Melbourne, Australia. Featuring artists Eddie Abd, Lara Chamas, Shareeka Helaluddin, Kirtika Kain, Eugenia Lim, Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Nikhil Nagaraj, Phuong Ngo, Rahee Punyashloka, NC Qin, Moonis Shah, Subash Thebe Limbu. Curated by Vishal Kumaraswamy.

Publications

Books

• Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms], Routledge, Oct 2023, 716 pp. Publisher.

Magazines, Journals, Blogs

• Priteegandha Naik, "Exploring Dalit-Futurism in Caste-Flavored Techno-Scientific Worlds", SFRA Review, Volume 53 Issue #1, Winter 2023.
• Hina Siddiqui, "Cultural Futurism: Possibilities, Probabilities and Potential", Art Now Thus, May 29 2023.
• Vaaswat Saarkar, "Inside Artist Subash Thebe Limbu's Intersectional World Of Adivasi Futurism", Homegrown.co.in, May 05 2023.
• Saddaf Padder, "In Search of Inclusive South Asian Futurisms", Hyperallergic, March 22 2023.
• Mark Turin, "At The Edge of Tomorrow", Nepal Times, November 23 2022.
• Emily House, "Reimagining a future that values the lives, experiences and cultures across the Asia Pacific", Griffith Asia Insights, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, May 30 2022.
• Aishwarya Baidar, "Addressing the past, imagining a future", The Record Nepal, January 9 2022.

Videos, Podcasts, Radio

• Osheen Siva, Subash Thebe Limbu, K.A. Geetha, Priteegandha Naik, "Adivasi and Dalit Futurism: Artists Subash Thebe Limbu and Osheen Siva in Conversation", CADALFEST (Celebrating Adivasi and Dalit Arts and Literature Festival), Bonington Gallery, Online, India and Nottingham, October 20 2022.
• Anisha Baid, Subash Thebe Limbu, "Between Documentary and Speculative: An Interview with Subash Thebe Limbu (Part II)", ASAP Art, March 27 2021.
• Anisha Baid, Subash Thebe Limbu, "Towards an Adivasi Futurism: An Interview with Subash Thebe Limbu", ASAP Art, March 16 2021.

Essays, Book Chapters

• Subash Thebe Limbu, "Subash Thebe Limbu", The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, December 2022.
• Subash Thebe Limbu, "Adivasi Futurism", August 09 2020.

See Also

Indigenous Futurism, Dalit Futurism, Dalit Feminism, South Asian Futurisms, New World, Global South Futurisms, Post Western, Tropical Futurism, Afrofuturism, Decolonization, Queer Studies, Queer Futurism, Protopia Futures, Ethno Futurism