Climate Metaphors

Asmita Sarkar is a theorist of contemporary art and a practicing artist. She has an interdisciplinary background encompassing psychology, art theory and history, and creative and critical writing. She possesses two Master’s degrees, one in Fine Arts, One in Experimental Psychology. Her doctoral research investigated the phenomenology of embodiment and novel metaphors in the works of contemporary painters. 

She has publications in journals such as Leonardo, Journal of Aesthetic Education, and Journal of Visual Art Practice that focus on interdisciplinarity. As a visual artist, her practice consists of expansive site-specific, digital, and mixed-media paintings. She has worked with scientists and research scholars from NCBS and IISc as artistic collaborators in visualizing science.

One such recent project is with Dr Arnab Barik, IISc, in visualizing the neuroscience of pain. For this project, she received national and institutional grants. She is working on two monographs on contemporary art from India and materiality and ecology, for one of which she has signed a contract with Peter Lang, Lausanne, Switzerland.