Undoing the bar in an era of doing
UndoBar is an independent research-to-resource publication platform led by the pedagogy of ontological design.
Founded in 2016, we function as circular collective of creators thriving through design-led artisanal practices at the threshold of embodied art and land-led storytelling. Our exploration is inspired by lived experiences of neuro-divergence, tranimalities, differently-abledness and gender-fluidity as indigenous people of color.
Our Tenet: Everything is by design
By gesturing towards a liminal space of rest as an actionable access in the age of anthropocene, we celebrate our aliveness as plural bodies and multi-dimensional beings through the offerings and publications.
Rooted: Rest Residencies
Rest Residencies are quarterly offerings for experiencing qualitative prowess of ease-led practices, for neuro-divergent and QTIBPOC artists, storytellers and entrepreneurs.
These containers are offered beyond trans-action within an incubated immersion into a world of queer ecology with practices for re-membering animism-led stories of kinship.
o_a_u: Research+Discovery Fellowship
An invitation to creators-at-ease to explore possibilities of entrepreneurial and artistic process for creative collaboration with the quiet queers, and, those with a tushy & a tail through subtler space policies; o_a_u is an intimate and experiential, self-designed and led-by-land, 09-18 month Research + Discovery Fellowship.
Extended as an open-source and decentralised digital and creative commons, it is a quasi-archival in multimedia format composted over a decade in the entangled network of underground world of the undercommons.
Sartorial Suits
Integrated by an in-depth experience of self, spatial, somatic and studio practices; Sartorial Suits is an in-person makeover from self-to-space as trans-ition. Offered through insights in realms of identity as design, systems of visual communication & creative direction, and language as an ontological tool to embody enabling narratives, for select collectives, beings and bodies at our off-the-grid soirees & salons.
Kinshop
As a part of nurturing an enabling aggregation of toolkits for emerging creators, we have hand-made a kinshop for us here.
Contact Us
By undoing the bar in an era of doing, UndoBar is essentially rest-led in-dwelling for sum of us who are at at the edges of in-betweenness, exploring myth-making and decolonising in their rituals and practices.
We are accessible in social arena as a substack of insights. Or, we are always ready to weave stories via email.
Land Acknowledgment
Originated and based in the unceded lands of Bharat, or, in the English language, India. We acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional lands of Tamizh Nadu. We pay our respects to their Elders of past and present as Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land.