themochu@gmail.com

b. 1983, India
Currently in Delhi and Berlin.

Mochu works with video and text, arranged as installations, lectures and publications. Technoscientific fictions and subcultural formations feature prominently in his practice, often modulated with anxiety, futurity and weird selfhoods. Hosting cameos from art history, media theory and philosophy, recent projects have explored the nostalgic remains of cyberpunk, civilizational battles on the internet, corporate encounters with deep time, and other psychonautic drifts across landscape, madness and states of intoxication.

Mochu is the author of the books Bezoar Delinqxenz (Edith-Russ-Haus + Sternberg Press, 2023), and Nervous Fossils: Syndromes of the Synthetic Nether (Reliable Copy + KNMA, 2022). He is a recipient of fellowships from Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst (2020-22), Ashkal Alwan (2015-16), India Foundation for the Arts (2012-15) and The Sarai Programme (2012). Exhibitions include at RMIT Melbourne (2024), 9th Asian Art Biennial (2024), HKW (2024), Whitechapel Gallery (2023), 9th Asia-Pacific Triennial (2018), 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018), 13th Sharjah Biennial (2017) and transmediale:BWPWAP (2013), with a solo show at Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst (2022).

2016: Fellowship and study program at Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, LB
2008: Graduate Diploma in Film and Video Communication, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, IN

2023: Bezoar Delinqxenz, published by Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst and Sternberg Press, DE/UK
2022: Nervous Fossils, published by Reliable Copy and KNMA, IN

2022: Sentient Picnic, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, DE

2025: Anthrofuture Film Festival, Universität Wien, AT
2025: The place we do not know is the place we are looking for, Liquid Architecture, Melbourne, AU
2024: How To Hold Your Breath: 9th Asian Art Biennial, NTMOFA, Taichung, TW
2024: This Hideous Replica, RMIT, Melbourne, AU
2024: Delve, gallery Josep Renau, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, ES
2024: Boundary Iconology, ITU Copenhagen, DK
2024: Total Runtime 01:07:29, Amant, NYC, US
2024: Rencontres Internationales, HKW, Berlin, DE
2023: Artists Film International,Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, NW
2023: Artists Film International, Fundaciòn Proa, Buenos Aires, AR
2023: Artists Film International, n.b.k Berlin, DE
2023: Artists Film International, GAMeC Bergamo, IT
2023: Artists Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2023: Artists Film International, Project 88, Mumbai, IN
2021: VisionMix: Loss & Transience 2, videoclub UK + Hong-Gah Museum Taipei, TW
2020: Chiayi International Art Documentary Film Festival, Chiayi City, TW
2019: (postponed) Home Works Forum 8, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, LB
2018: 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA, Brisbane, AU
2018: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, IN
2018: Apple in Dream Mode, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, IN
2017: Tamawuj, Sharjah Biennial 13, Sharjah, AE
2017: Hangar for the Passerby, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi, IN
2016: Metabolisms: Exposure 8, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, LB
2016: Life in the Deep, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, IN
2015: IFA showcase, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore, IN
2015: Signs Festival, Kochi, IN
2015: The Foveal Experiment, Khoj International Artists Association, Delhi, IN
2013: Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, IN
2013: Transmediale BWPWAP, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE

2020: Media Art Grant of The Foundation of Lower Saxony, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, DE
2018: Alserkal Residency, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, AE
2014: Research residency at Utopiana, Geneva and ProHelvetia, Zurich, CH
2013: Arts Research and Documentation Grant, India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore, IN
2012: City as Studio 03 Fellowship for Contemporary Art and Cultural Practice, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi, IN

2019: (anthology) The Last Resident, The Contemporary Condition series, Aarhus University, ARoS Art Museum and Sternberg press, DK/UK
2015: (anthology) Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Volume 6, Number 2, Intellect Journal, UK