M.Phil. Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Santasil Mallik is a visual artist and researcher currently pursuing his M.Phil. from the Centre for English Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His work deals with the intersections of literary and visual cultures in the modern political history of Bengal, India. As a practitioner, he engages with alternative documentary processes and experimental video art, exhibiting them at various film and media festivals globally.
Research interests
Mallik's research interests broadly encompass postcolonial avant-gardes, literary visualities, conflict studies, and documentary practices in South Asia. These concerns mostly evolve in conversation with his practice as a documentary film and media artist exploring formal, non-narrative modes of representation. Currently, he's developing a research project that attempts to comprehend the violence and intergenerational trauma in the visual archives of Bengal's successive partitions from 1947 to 1971. He's particularly interested in the images of diplomacy, amateur studio photographs, family albums, and the broad category of "vernacular photographs", which captures political violence in subliminal forms.
Recent works/publications
"War, Diplomacy, and the Ordinary: Looking Back at the Bangladesh Liberation War", Membrana: Journal of Photography and Visual Culture, Vol 6, No. 1 (under review)
"The Anxious Photographer: Ethics and Emotions in Contemporary Photography", Revelar: Journal of Image and Photography Studies, Vol. 6 (forthcoming)
