agat sharma / intimidation tactics

bioMy name is Agat. I grew up in India and moved to Amsterdam to study at DAS Theatre in 2020.  I moved here alone and Computational Mama and Yugen joined me in 2025. In this time I met Julia and George. We made most of the work as Intimidation Tactics.  With Sipan I co-founded the Absent Academy. This year I started working with Sophia, Sieve and Selina. I sometimes work with emerging technology, projections and code. Computational Mama and Willem from ID Lab have helped me. Laura (B) and I are trying to find ways to take care of each other and stay close to knowledge that emerges from the body. With Laura (C), we have been developing a way to think with storms, whales, komodo dragons and other non-human beings. Under the guidance of the world renowned Glottogeologist, Dr. Dhwani Shodhak, I have been learning about the inseperable link between land, body and voice. With Jetal, we have been trying to to build an emotionally and financially sustainable writing and publishing practice. With Ainhoa, in a slow, free and open way, we are imaging a collective place of learning. I want to keep working with these amazing people for the rest of my life. :)

I started a theatre company and research studio called Intimidaiton Tactics. At the studio, we usually find ourselves perpetually lost in an existential derilium. “How the F&$% did we end up here?” Thinking through making about the state of our experience of the world. And we often end up overwhelmed with the question “What does it mean to be human?” We take these questions very seriously.

Intimidation Tactics has a studio space in Jordaan, Amsterdam and where we think together and make all the work. We are looking at ways to start a gardening project in our backyard.

Yes, a lot of recent work has been about ecological change, human-nature relationship and about decolonisaiton. But to define the work as such fells like limiting it. It is much more and our relationship with what we make is not fixed.  A lot of this practice has emerged as a response to a racially biased context. This has changed the work. What has not changed is a relational logic of building worlds together with love. That is the core Intimidation Tactic.  

Apart from making theatre, I have been a teacher for most of my life. And in the future, I would like to write a lot more poetry.  

This bio is a funny thing. I never get it right. I change by the time I finish writing it.

^{p.s. in the background is playing a video work variously titled - Lover’s Discourse / really really really long term thinking / (RRR.dev). Made with C_mama and Julia.  <3}