13 Facts About Nancy Adajania

Nancy Adajania was born on 1971 and is an Indian cultural theorist, art critic and independent curator.

Nancy Adajania was educated at the Princess Alexandra School, Elphinstone College, where she read Politics for her BA, the Sophia Polytechnic, Bombay, where she took a diploma in Social Communications Media, and the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, where she studied film.

The focus of Nancy Adajania's writing, research and curatorial interests is the relationship between the artistic imagination and the technological resources and potentialities available to it in any particular society and period.

Nancy Adajania has proposed several conceptual tools with which to examine the consequences of newness across various sectors of cultural production.

Nancy Adajania has reflected, in several essays and lectures, on the aesthetic and political effects of what, following the theorist Paul Virilio, she terms dromomania, an obsession with speed produced by the globalisation of communicative and distributive processes.

Nancy Adajania was contributing curator for 'Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves'.

In 2011, Nancy Adajania was appointed Joint Artistic Director of the 9th Gwangju Biennale.

Nancy Adajania has contributed essays and reviews to Springerin, Metamute, Art 21, Public Art, Art Asia Pacific, X-Tra and the Documenta 12 Magazine.

Nancy Adajania has been developing an account of transcultural artistic practice, with its political and ethical referents as well as its institutional conditions.

Nancy Adajania has held an Associate Fellowship with Sarai CSDS, and is in the process of establishing, jointly with Ranjit Hoskote, a new journal of critical inquiry in the visual arts.

Nancy Adajania has served as a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Asian Art Archive, Hong Kong.

Nancy Adajania was a Co-Artistic Director of ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale.

Nancy Adajania is married to the renowned Indian English poet Ranjit Hoskote.