Born in Calcutta and educated in Iran and England, Ansuman is an artist whose practice spans music, theatre, film, live arts, installation and critical theory.
Over the last fifteen years this has included living with wandering minstrels in India, making underwater sculptures in the Red Sea, being employed as an ornamental hermit in the English countryside, travelling with shamans in the Gobi Desert, working with neuroscientists in Arizona, touring with Björk, spending two days blindfolded on Exmoor, playing with Oasis, co-ordinating grassroots activists in Soweto, being sealed in a box for ten days with no food or light, holding seminars with monks in a Burmese monastery, and flying on a magic carpet in Russia.