Library Chat: Jason Allen-Paisant and Sujatro Ghosh
In this Library Chat, artist and activist Sujatro Ghosh joins Jason Allen-Paisant—poet, Fellow at the Institute, and Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester—to discuss Prosaic Elegy for Hungry Streets, Ghosh’s exhibition, alongside broader questions of memory, desire, and food in his practice. The conversation also explores the personal experiences and artistic trajectory that motivate Ghosh to address hunger through his work, as well as how community life shapes his engagement with food, giving rise to ideas of non-aligned solidarity, tenderness, sensuality, desire, and intimacy.
Jason Allen-Paisant is a poet, scholar, and writer whose honors include the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is full professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. He has received fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, and the University of East Anglia. His books include the philosophical treatise Engagements with Aimé Césaire and the literary nonfiction work The Possibility of Tenderness. He is an associate editor of the literary journal Callaloo.
Sujatro Ghosh (b. 1993), Multi Disciplinary Artist-Activist. His practice attempts to initiate a conversation about social action and political protest which produces the conditions for othered voices to be heard. Sujatro’s work combines conceptual and material adventures produced by radical thought primarily around queer rights, diaspori
