Pratyush Pushkar & Riya Raagini a.k.a. Bariya is a queer trans-disciplinary artist and writer duo from New Delhi, India. Their practice flowers from intersections inhabited by sincere ecological & decolonial awareness and meditation probing through subjective consciousness(ing). Theirs is a request to examine and host alternative forms of cognition, listening, un-identity, spirituality, and active resolve. With commitments to non-cooperation and queer care, they synthesize and reconcile through ever-evolving sonics (& debris); poetry; images; Hindi culture & languaging; philosophy; and digital affinity & tactility.

Their practice navigates through creating/rediscovering queer/granular cognitive responses, rigorous poetic probes, collaborative ecological & bioacoustic listening, running an ecological radio station, meditating on ever-present everyday sonic reconciliations, and bridging queer gaps across Hindi, English and other languages through an expanding archive of translations.

They are often found in between threads of radical restfulness, feral cat(s)-parenting, learning to write poems, storytelling, polyphonic singing, learning around quantum yearnings of bodies and gestures, disorientation and play- journaling ‘अकर्मण्य ब्लूज़ (Inactivity Blues)', 'निर्भीक श्रवण (Fearless Listening)'.

Their work has recently been exhibited, hosted, broadcasted, and published at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany (2022), Thyssen Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid (2021), Prospect Art, Los Angeles (2022), Andalusian Centre for Contemporary Creation, Spain (2023), Audioblast Festival, France (2023), City Museum of Ljubljana, Slovenia (2021), Acoustic Commons - As If Radio (2021), The European Capital of Culture#ESCH22, Radio Tsonami, Tsonami Arte Sonoro, Chile (2021), Radhiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2022), Future Nostalgia FM - Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany (2022), Sadaneera (2020), Wrong Biennale (2021-22), Festival Sur Aural, Bolivia (2021), KHOJ International Artists Association (2024), Festival Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (2023), Forum Wallis, Switzerland (2024), CRISAP- University of The Arts, London (2024) among others.