poetry and performance in immersive environments | outer space | ecology | non-human thought | non-linear time | fictional histories | speculative futures | art writing

Himali is a writer and artist based between London and Delhi. She uses metaphors from outer space and the natural environment to construct imaginary cosmologies of interferences, entanglements, deep voids, debris, delays, alienation, distance and intimacy.

Himali works across text, performance and moving image. She utilizes metaphors from the natural environment to construct speculative cosmologies that reveal non-linear entanglements between human and non-human life. Her poetic methodology explores the myriad technologies of knowing, from scientific to intuitional, indigenous and alchemical ...

A series of five unique prints of interconnected fictional mythologies inspired by artist Himali Singh Soin's journeys to both polar circles: the Antarctic and the Arctic, in 2017. It fuses a variety of concerns: the ways we know what we do and the skewed hierarchy between reason and spirit, (post-)colonial attitudes and a looming climate crises.

In this spirit of collaboration and knowledge sharing, Soin invited Nassar to respond to her video Static Range. Inspired by the image of Nanda Devi, Nassar—whose work often depicts harmonious landscapes in contested territories—embroidered the mountain.

ONLINE. as grand as what in Balcony Magazine. Static Range at HKW, Berlin. Nordic Futurism and Gardening in Azerbaijan in Paperwork. Oneiric gardening in HYSTERIA. Overview Effect on AQNB. Morning Sonnet on Prairie Schooner. Invisible Poetry & Boy of Letters on Eclectica . WHAT on Bread Loaf Journal Vol. 1 [Pg 4, 26]. Right Side Up & …

Drawing on research into Himali’s namesake, the Himalayas, and its animistic rituals and remedies, mystical geometries, old new materialism and spirit realism, ancestors of the blue moon is a collection of flash fictions from the perspective of remote or forgotten deities, deities protected by rites of secrecy or left out of the archives ...

Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser) is a multi-media performance duo whose work combines experimental poetry and original music in order to conjure borgesian, speculative futures and multiverses. H/D aspire toward a flat ontological ether in which all forms of life—stone, spirit, machine or human—are equal.

Interview: Artist Himali Singh Soin On Almanacs, South Asian Futurism & The Power Of The Word by Keshav Anand

Embroidery and embellishments by Himali Singh Soin, David Soin Tappeser and Annika Thiems. Mokshapat, meaning pPath to lLiberation, is an tapestry embroidery on Mashru, a double dexterous weave of pure silk on one side and pure cotton on the other.