is a visual arts researcher and practitioner based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The proposal I propose to work with consists of two phases. In the first part, I will develop a research paper by creating a colonial timeline from archival materials from India, the Philippines, and Indonesia. In doing so, I will trace the history of famine, genocide, religious and political unrest, and the aftermath of environmental disasters in these countries. I will begin by telling a story in which colonial rule is a common phenomenon in controlling the socio-political structure. Then, I will focus on some historical narratives and comparative aesthetic theories by Walter Benjamin, Lev Manovich, Laura Mulvey, Wilhelm Hegel, Jacques Derrida, Geeta Kapoor, Partha Mitter, Heidegger, Kavita Singh, Naman Ahuja, and Parul Dave Mukherji. Finally, an analogy will be made between the understanding of these theorists and the Asian postcolonial hypothesis, which deals with the phenomenon of cultural and ecological diversity in the past and present.

The second phase will be the creative visualization of these archival images. This visualization will recontextualize the history of these images and objects and provide a comparative narrative view from the decolonial perspective. I want to relate the selected materials to their places, language, beliefs, religions, and the oral narratives of rebellious personalities that have disappeared in the colonial knowledge production structure.

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