Ansuman Biswas worked with Artangel on Longplayer Assembly – joining 23 other participants in a non-stop 12-hour conversation relay presented live online on 26 September 2020, marking the twentieth anniversary of Longplayer.
Biswas has an international, inter-disciplinary practice which has included:
- Directing Shakespeare in America
- Translating Tagore
- Designing underwater sculptures in the Red Sea
- Living with wandering minstrels in India
- Being an ornamental hermit in the English countryside
- Touring with Björk
- Surviving blindfolded in an unknown place
- Travelling with nomadic shamans in the Gobi Desert
- Playing with Oasis
- Collaborating with neuroscientists in Arizona
- Living for a week with nothing but what spectators chose to give him
- Singing for 24 hours non-stop
- Organizing grassroots activists in Soweto
- Meditating in a box for ten days with no food or light
- Creating a musical in a maximum-security prison
- Working in R&D for Hewlett-Packard
- Being a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Bathing strangers
- Holding seminars in a Burmese monastery
- Running a club for women in Hamburg’s red-light district
- Playing with terminally ill children
- Making a radio telescope sing and dance
- Being locked in a Gothic tower alone for forty days and nights
- Flying on a real, life, magic carpet
- Stopping time.