Marjian Tsatsaros Tyagi

I am interested in interdisciplinary and embodied practices of advocacy and inclusion by exploring ways of bridging the audiences individual experiences to the constructed design of the exhibition. Through performative, expressive, and sensorial activities to create engagement and connection within arts spaces. My practice plays with ideas of participation, materiality, hospitality and intimacy for audiences, as well as practitioners, to embrace neurodiversity, embodied experience and identity. 

 

This year I have also been exploring myth, fantasy and fiction as tools to examine or re-imagine our understanding of the world and ourselves within it. Thinking through phenomenological perception and design my work has aimed to adopt empathetic and accessible modes of curating. Weaving together the metaphor of Myth for curatorial practice which engages storytelling, immersion and gathering.

 

A myth can live in a moment and across time as they are both individually interpretable and societally relatable. The stories we tell through exhibitions create a cyclical impression onto culture, reshaping public and internal knowledge. The fantastical as the ability to incite imagination and the poetic as a tool of communing, understanding and discourse. To imagine alternative worlds, times, beings and systems transports audiences into works and discourses via transcendent, mystical and immersive play with the potential to undermine orthodox, hegemonic and colonial exclusionary systems. 

 

I am currently exploring breadmaking and writing as a metaphor and activating practice into the intimate while foregrounding ecological, cultural and political discourses. Crafting the invisible and quiet stories, the emotional and intuitive knowledges created by the interaction of space, materials, ingredients and person.

 

Born and based in London but of mixed heritage of Canadian, Indian, Greek and Scottish, my practice often draws from my own experiences of identity, heritage neurodiversity and art practice.