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Biography

Alexis Bhagat is a writer and cultural producer based in Albany, NY.

He is currently a student of Information Science at the University at Albany, and a Media Archives Intern at Rensselaer Libraries & EMPAC.
From 2016 through April 2023, he was the executive director of the Friends & Foundation of Albany Public Library and he continues to serve as their Digital Equity Project Manager, administering the APL-AHA Digital Inclusion Partnership.
He is a founding member of St. Rocco's Poetry Collective.

@nadalex on Tumblr, and LinkedIn
@alexis.bhagat on Instagram.
Available for hire: More info at audio-biblio.


Current & Ongoing Projects

Current

Finding Rare Tapes: Research Project with Brian McCorkle. Presented at 57th ARSC Conference, May 2023 and Fall 2023 MARAC Conference.

Kiddie Pool is a project space for living with constant change. Pop-up gallery in Downtown Albany. Curated by Karley Sullivan and Alexis Bhagat.

Ongoing

ST. ROCCO’S BROADCAST FOR THE DISPOSSESSED is a weekly radio program on WCAA 107.3 and available from Pacifica Audioport. Thursdays at 2am, Sundays at 11am.

THE CENTER FOR ENCHANTMENT acts as a catalyst for art making activities at the intersection of song/sound, rhythm, and geography/place. (For example, but not limited to, processions, walks, conversations, rituals, sited musical installations.) The center also presents educational activities that support the production and reception of commissioned artworks and activities, such as artist talks, film presentations, and reading groups. The Center for Enchantment is located on Grand Street, in Albany NY, and seeks to create offerings and collaborations that animate the communities (past and present, human and non-human) of this place. In collaboration with Stephanie Loveless and friends.


Past Projects

((audience)) founded in 2009 by Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati was dedicated to the advancement of aural arts by providing wide distribution and new contexts for works by emerging and established sound artists and composers. Cinema for the Ear. Pop-ups. Salons & Listening Lounges. Sleeping since 2016, but if you invite us, we will consider it. And if you have a movie theater, we will probably say yes. An authorized history of Audience and our exhibition "Listen My Heart" may be found in the book, Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship

An Atlas of Radical Cartography (2007-2012) was abook project conceived and co-edited with artist Lize Mogel, that spun off into an art exhibition that travelled to over 20 cities.
I organized intergenerational dialogues on the past and future of maps and the meaning of pictures of the earth in the digital age.

XFR STN (2013) was a “pop-up moving image archive project” conceived by artist Alan Moore, and produced by the New Museum in New York.
I organized the Thursday Night public programs.

AUDIOMAIL (2020) was a collaborative project of Alexis Bhagat and Christophe Albertijn that invited a variety of informal audio archives to contribute to the Fahrenheit 451 House Library in Catskill, NY. It was the first "curation" at Fahrenheit 451 House.
SOME TAPES IN THE WORDSHIP
[PDF] is a survey of Richard Kostelanetz’s “Audio Art Archive” - a collection of cassette tapes indexed in 1994. The Audio Art Archive was the subject of “Audiomail #1” - the first of several proposed iterative exhibitions at Fahrenheit 451 House for the Audiomail project.

Atoms (2022) was a collection and exhibition of books and ephemera related to nuclear culture at Fahrenheit 451 House.
Projects from 1997 – 2009 may be found at alexis.nadalex.net.


UPDATED: August 1, 2022