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.
Finding Rare Tapes: Research Project with Brian McCorkle. Presented at 57th ARSC Conference, May 2023 and Fall 2023 MARAC Conference. 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 An
Atlas of Radical Cartography
XFR
STN Audiomail Atoms Works
1997-2009 ((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. 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. 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. Atoms (2022) was a collection and exhibition of books and ephemera related to nuclear culture at Fahrenheit 451 House.
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
I organized intergenerational dialogues on the past and future of maps and the meaning of pictures of the earth in the digital age.
I
organized the Thursday Night public programs.
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.
Projects from 1997 – 2009 may be found at alexis.nadalex.net.
UPDATED: August 1, 2022