Nirrhit Pal is a tribal trans artist whose practice moves between fashion, sculpture, and performance to question the ways bodies, cultures, and histories are framed. Working with materials like latex, silicone, and bamboo, he merges personal narratives with broader critiques of nationalism, foregrounding tribal art and craft as a living, contemporary practice rather than a relic of the past. Koch Futures is shaped by the language of dreams and disobedient bodies. Drawing from the surreal, oneiric cinema of Le Sang d’un poète (Jean Cocteau), Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene), and the ghostly absurdity of early avant-garde films born out of socio-political distortions, Nirrhit choreographs a performance resisting a linear narrative. Producing atmospheres of longing, warping, and erotic confusion, he mirrors how tribal identities are consumed—abstracted, staged, and desired at a distance. In this work, fetish is a material and method. Nirrhit uses fetish as both a site and symptom, to speak of the fetishisation of tribal people as static, ahistorical, and erotically available to the state, the museum, the tourist. The performance itself becomes a moving tableau of these tensions, a tribal body in a second skin, pierced with bamboo ribs, caught between vulnerability and spectacle, protection and display.