Pratyush Pushkar / ba is a transdisciplinary artist, poet, and researcher building a poetics of attention rooted in listening, gesture, ecological intimacy, and metaphysical longing. Working across sound, language, translation, image, food, and participatory forms, their practice traces hidden continuities between beings, atmospheres, and states of relation. Through immersive, research-led methodologies, ba constructs spaces for alternative sensing—where vulnerability, slowness, and collective attunement become ways of knowing.
 

At the heart of ba’s methodology is an insistence on alternative epistemologies—ways of knowing that center queer cognition, non-cooperation, intuitive architectures, and modes of listening beyond extractive or anthropocentric frameworks. Their practice functions as a living archive of sonic and poetic gestures that foreground vulnerability, attention,  cognitive compassion and transformative slowness.
 

Processing through journaling of :

‘अकर्मण्य ब्लूज़ (Inactivity Blues)’ – a poetic inquiry into agency, inertia, and radical rest;
‘निर्भीक श्रवण (Fearless Listening)’ – a sonic practice of deep attention and anti-instrumental listening;
‘स्थावर उत्साह (Joy in Stationed)’ – an exploration of groundedness, immobility, and the ecologies of presence.

 

Ba’s research interfaces with themes such as:

– Queer temporalities and disoriented embodiment
– Post-human and post-verbal listening methodologies
– Digital tactility and the politics of interface
– Decolonial translation as poetic infrastructure
– Cultural philosophy in Hindi linguistic traditions
 

Their approach holds an ethical and aesthetic commitment to non-linear pedagogy, spiritual inquiry, and compassionate inquiries into collective sense-making. They are often drawn to interdisciplinary collaborations, particularly those that bridge the sonic with the textual, and the intuitive with the archival.