Nishant Shah

Dr. Nishant Shah is Director of Research & Outreach and Professor Aesthetics and Culture of Technologies at ArtEZ University of the Arts in The Netherlands and Faculty Associate (2020-21) at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, Harvard University. His work is at the intersections of body, identity, digital technologies, artistic practice, and activism, with a specific focus on non-canonical geographies.

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How Does it Hurt?

Text by Nishant Shah, Watercolours by Pato Hebert

When the world is caught in collective pain, it is strange that we don’t know how to talk about it. In this creative and personal pain-scale, Nishant Shah names, heeds, and measures a shared language for holding pain.