Kumar engages in systems that examine and order the world – from form to entanglements –through performance. Her research and practice intersect corporeal literacies, neuroscience, somatics, political philosophy, movement and visual arts with disciplinary rigour of training and architectural structures, seeking to produce tensions for non-modes of learning and perception. Over the years, she has produced work ranging from research papers, writing, editorials, performances, mixed media installations, paintings and media art, publications, and community-centred projects across Mumbai, Bangalore, Goa, London, Fort Kochi, Greece, Goa, Utrecht, Lake Constance, Lake Como, Torun, and Lisbon, operating transnationally.

To construct experiences for new ways of perception, she regularly undergoes intensive practices that demand repetition, such as bodywork, diving, academia, physical theatre, and more, which allow her to explore through the body. All of which feed her examination of how bodies and the hideousness of movement produce meaning, counter-normative spaces, relations, cultures, and knowledge. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Cognitive Culture Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and on the advisory board of SPHERE.