Established in 2020, Kalā Kulo is a non-profit initiative that nurtures the flows and frictions of creative labor. Based in Nepal, the team experiments with speculative praxis—where acts, thoughts, and relations are reimagined—to irrigate new constellations of ideas and kinships. Working across fields and frameworks of knowledge production, the team embraces fluid and collaborative methodologies. Existing efforts have included contextualizing body marking traditions across the Indo-Nepal border, assembling a repository of modernist visual practices from Kathmandu, and generating transregional dialog on movements of peoples and ideas. 

Priyankar Bahadur Chand is a researcher incorporating archival and field-based methodologies in his works. His ongoing study includes assembling and contextualising the archives of the SKIB-71 art collective, looking at the long history of disease and territory in the Tarai, recording body marking traditions along the Indo-Nepal borderland, and exploring the visual historiography of cultures across the Himalayas. He is also co-founder of Kalā Kulo, a space working experimental and speculative approaches in Kathmandu.

Bishal Yonjan is a visual artist/curator based out of Kathmandu. He is a part of Kalā Kulo, an arts initiative, where he works on a series of archives contextualizing the contributions of artists who have been central to introducing novel artistic vocabularies to Nepal in the 20th century. Professionally, he has been involved in exhibition design, installation, and programming, including for Kathmandu Triennale 2077, the retrospective of Ragini Upadhaya and block prints, dot screens, and technicolor worlds of Tek Bir Mukhiya. His current interest includes exploring the regional histories of printed matter and book design in South Asia. He is also a member of Aṅkūra Atelier, a creative collective.