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Karthik Pandian is an artist working to unsettle colonial time. He uses film, sculpture, drawing, and performance to find openings into collective liberation. Supported by a 2022 Creative Capital Award and a 2024 MacDowell Fellowship, Karthik is currently at work on his debut feature film, Lucid Decapitation. The film is a collaboration with Mike Forcia (Bad River Anishinaabe), the American Indian Movement activist who orchestrated the takedown of the Columbus monument at the Minnesota State Capitol in June of 2020. Karthik has presented his work internationally at exhibition venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer, and the Palais de Tokyo and on digital platforms such as the Criterion Channel and Triple Canopy. He is a professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University and a guide, certified in offering Lama Rod Owens’ Seven Homecomings practice.