Manisha Anjali is a writer and artist working with text, performance and installation. Her practice and research explores narratives and languages of dreams and exile. Manisha was born in Suva, Fiji and raised in Aotearoa. She currently lives in Naarm/Melbourne on unceded Wurundjeri country. Manisha pays her respects to their elders past, present and emerging.

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Electric Lotus is an inquiry into the ‘ecstatic’–is it synthetic, manic or electric? It blooms in the naked recitations of the wandering mystic Lal Ded, in the animal and flower companions of the saint Akka Mahadevi, in the throat of the playback singer Asha Bhosle, in the indigo devotion of the cult star Ma Anand Sheela. This is an interactive text for play and performance.

Electric Lotus was written during Manish’s recidency at Incendium Radical Library.