Ram Krishna Ranjan & Becky Shaw

Ram Krishna Ranjan is a lecturer in Film at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg. He works at the intersection of research, pedagogy and film practice. His educational background is in Economics, Media and Cultural Studies, Fine Art and Film. In his work, he critically explores decolonial and postcolonial perspectives and the intersectionality of caste, class and gender. He has made several films on these issues. His latest, Fourth World, delves into the various facets and stages of a creative-collaborative practice that attempted to foreground and engage with Dalit experiences of the Bengal famine of 1943.

Becky Shaw is an artist researcher and Professor in Fine Art Practice at Birmingham City University. She led the Sheffield Hallam University art and design PhD programme from 2015-2024,and co-led Static Gallery, Liverpool 2000-2006. Becky makes live, collaborative artworks that examine the tension between individuals and social structures, in institutions of ‘public good’ including healthcare, education, utilities and work. Works examine a specific assemblage of people, structure and time, with movement often functioning to unsettle the institutional apparatus. Commissions include for City of Calgary Water Services, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, Guys and St Thomas Hospital, Walsall Art Gallery, Sainsbury Centre, Grizedale Arts and Amstelveen Art Incentive Prize. Currently, Becky is exploring what artists bring to interdisciplinary research teams. This includes Infrastructure as Culture with Sophie Hope (et al), Justheat (CHANSE fund, 2022), Odd: Feeling Different in the World of Education (2018-2022) and Things of the least (AHRC exhibition fund, 2023-2026).