BemBem is an artist, translator, and writer. She works with different media and performance disciplines, hoping to find completely unexpected encounters that can shift and deepen her practice. She is 2019 artist-in-residence at Zentralwerk Dresden (Germany), with support from Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, where she begins work on her new multimedia project titled Yang-Huk-Uun: Confabulations. It uses the Meetei Mayek alphabet-to-body writing system to investigate body languages and movements lost in cultural and political assimilation. Her English translation of the Meeteilon memoir and poetry of Manipur’s nupi maanbi (indigenous trans woman) activist & artist Santa Khurai’s Sendraang Hangaampaan (Yellow Sparrow) is forthcoming.