Aishwarya Kumar is a PhD candidate in Culture Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and an FCT scholarship holder. A practice-based researcher and curator, her work is positioned at intersections of corporeal studies, performance and media studies, curiosity studies and  cognition, intermediality and embodiment, new materialist studies, and questions concerning what comes after decoloniality. With a B. Des in Information Arts from India and an MA in Performance Studies from the Netherlands, her practice includes performance, art direction, curation in film, theater and visual and applied arts. Her recent work and writings are available through Transmission in Motion (2020), Junctions Journal (2021), ARIAS, Amsterdam (2022), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2023), 4K/less (2023), and Contemporânea (2024). She presented a part of her theoretical framework in embodiment and posthumanities at the XIV Lisbon Summer School 2024, during which she studied the experience of an encounter as an embodied and material concept. She has been involved in curatorial capacities with Instytut B61, IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], and G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture and continues to be on the advisory board of SPHERE.