Meha is a mathematician, interdisciplinary & multimedia visual artist, stage lights technician+designer, and community organizer, who is currently living in Vienna. They are a queer, trans person coming from multiple ethnic backgrounds of India. Their research and study is focused on chaos, where they use mathematics as a language of logic to find ways of interpreting and creating small pockets of comprehension within chaotic systems. Simultaneously, they also blend together various visual art media to use as a qualitative language of empathy and emotion to communicate the nature of chaos they find around themselves. They work with media such as mathematical structures, sculpture, ceramics, textile, tattooing, graphic design, animation, and indigenous Kashmiri form of paper maché to create narratives of their experiences.

They crave any work that combines creativity with technical knowledge, and ideally involves working with their hands. To that end, Meha has worked for some years in production work, carpentry, and designing sets in theatres in the USA. From there, they developed a passion for everything related to production work that goes into putting together an event, now specializing in stage lights design and set-up. Since moving to Vienna, they have worked as a stage lights technician and production manager for all kinds of venues and events, ranging from club nights, plays, community theatres, and drag shows. They believe understanding lighting techniques are an essential aspect of making any visual experience. Lighting not only translates emotions, but creative techniques are also central to working with people of colour, in a world where most technical equipment and camera lens’ are suited to white skin tones.

Through their experiences of living and working in different countries (including Egypt, Lebabon, India, USA, and Austria) they understand the importance of being involved in spaces--namely queer, trans, and communities of colour--that can accept them. They strongly believe in the care-power of community, and view relationships also as a way of navigating their surrounding chaos. An important goal for them is to create experiences of not only safety, but joy and fun for queer, trans, people of colour. To that end, they are a founding member of Spice Mixers (@spice_mixers) a Vienna-based collective that works with music, dance, and art to create events and nightlife spaces for diasporic/migrant and QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous & People of Colour). Through working in production, Meha has come to understand the importance and need of having a crew that can actually relate and empathize with the experiences of their intended audience. This is essential to create fun and comfortable spaces for QTBIPOC, rather than feed into the existing cycle of fetishization and exotification in current cultural scenes.

Meha also is a graphic designer, mainly creating social media content, posters, and artwork for qtbipoc-focused topics, and has some experience navigating the race and class based questions that arise while doing such work, especially when the audience is with a white european context.

They have also worked in several different capacities to gather resources and work with queer trans refugees of the global majority.

Meha embraces the idea of being jack of all trades, in order to be a master of empathy--to better understand, name, and narrate their peculiar interpersonal socio-political experiences within this all-consuming chaos.

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