
Land without Food is an interactive media installation that delves into the painful histories and lingering trauma of the notorious Bengal Famine (1943), among other famines in the Global South and Central Asia (1930 – 1933). The installation emerges from archival research to build a sound-driven augmented experience that invites the audience to engage their senses and activate intersubjective encounters, collectively building affective and poetic narratives from archival reassemblages. The archival research findings reveal the roots of these famines in the hegemonic power of settler-colonialism, as they are assembled through algorithmic processes of generative composition amplified by traditional cooking pots and prompted by audience interaction. As a participatory artwork, it situates empathetic feeding as a reparative, decolonial gesture in engaging with contemporary global hunger crises across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, advocating for a solidarity of intuition in acts of listening and responding.