Suvani Suri is an artist and researcher currently based in Delhi, India. She works with sound and intermedia assemblages and has been exploring various modes of transmission such as podcasts, auditory texts, sonic environments, maps, objects, installations, workshops and live interventions. Actively engaged in thinking through the techno-political processes that listening is embedded in, her curiosity about the spectral qualities of sound lends itself to the uncanny acoustic constructions, often found in her work. She is drawn towards generating chronicles of absurd sonic instances while recomposing the concepts, histories, fictions, myths, sensations and intensities that the aural carries and reveals.
A graduate of the New Media Design programme (2014) from the National Institute of Design, India, she has been a component of several interdisciplinary practices, alternating between the roles of an artist, assembler, designer, educator, researcher and sound-producer. Her work has been exhibited at Khoj Studios (2014), 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018), Mumbai Art Room (2018), Sound Reasons Festival VI (2018) and Khoj Curatorial Intensive South Asia (2019). As part of an artists’ collective, she co-conceived and realised an online telephonic exhibition, Out of Line (2019). More recently, she was one of the artist-actants in Five Million Incidents, a program organised by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan with the RAQS Media Collective (2020).