Chaiti Nath

Background

About Chaiti Nath

Chaiti Nath is an interdisciplinary cultural practitioner, arts programmer and curator with a strong foundation in Design and Visual Communication, complemented by a focus on Printmaking and Analogous Graphic Art. An M.F.A. from the Department of History of Art, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati with a dissertation that explored the concept of Counter-Visuality through the visual culture of Kolkata. Trained in Editing & Publishing from School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University. Selected attendee of ˋSouth Asia on the Move’, Summer School at Vilnius University, Lithuania. In addition to several years of experience in creating impactful visual communication designs, strategies, and campaigns, Chaiti is actively involved in public art, publishing intertextual visual narratives, and macro-image decoding. Her work reflects a commitment to exploring and reinterpreting visual narratives in inclusive contemporary contexts. Working as an independent investigator, she finds her passion in South Asian print and vernacular material culture.*Research Areas - Archiving and Decoding of Vernacular Cultures - Visual artefacts, South Asian Bazaar Art, Kitsch, and Non-Art - Visual Culture, Urban Studies and anthropology - Transdisciplinary approaches to curation