bioAgat Sharma (he/him) is an artist, educator and theatre maker. Agat is currently engaged in a long term research about the history of cotton conducting theatrical experiments exploring cotton's pre-colonial legacy, colonial extractivism and the ongoing agrarian crisis in India. His work prominently features themes examining the emergence, evolution and erasure of the relationship between land and the body. He works with an expanded notion of what a song and a story can be and employs them as tools for evoking post-colonial imaginaries. Agat works between the Netherlands and India. In the past his work has been associated with The Sarai Programme, Khoj Artist Association, Jawahar Kala Kendra, and Jan Natya Manch.