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A group of academics from the field of art, design and interdisciplinary humanities joined forces to launch
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Over a decade ago, in the summer of 2010, Aicon Gallery, London opened ‘A Missing History: ‘The Other Story’
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Iona Fergusson and Numair A. Abbasi respond to photographer Wendy Marijnissen’s book Always the Guest. Dislocating photography from the narrative of representation both writers present the readers with multiple viewpoints to engage with her works while sparking a conversation on…
Loving Mama and Papa, Salam! The three of us are doing well, and I’m sure the two of you are great too. It’s been a few days since I have spoken to both of you, or even heard your voice.…
Ruby Chishti’s sculptural art expresses a profound engagement with the human condition. It is poised at the meeting point of personal reflection, family history, memory, and the anxieties that beset the world. From her subjective and intuitive considerations, Ruby distils…
Language and its usage in Pakistan is a contentious issue; while Urdu is recognized as the national language
Questions of power, privilege and power relations are seldom asked in craft development. Paradoxically enough many craft development projects with artisanal communities are labelled as ‘empowerment’ yet fail to recognise power can manifest in the very act of craft making…
EndnotesMirza, S. (2020) Threads of the Indus: the subtle forms of power in craft development in Sindh, Pakistan, PhD Thesis, Royal College of Art, LondonChambers, R. (1983) Rural development; putting the last first. Harlow: Pearson EducationFoucault, M. (1994) Power: essential…
A. R. Nagori once proclaimed that he had “earned the distinction of being the first painter in the Subcontinent to be censored.”20 He certainly wasn’t the last. How a state attempts to censor and censure artists ultimately reveals not only…
EndnotesArtists’ Voices (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2006), 11South Asia Citizens Web “Self-censorship in post-Zia Pakistan” http://www.sacw.net/index.php?page=imprimir_articulo&id_article=1145 (Sept. 26, 2009) http://www.sacw.net/index.php?page=imprimir_articulo&id_article=1145 Newsweek “Rebel Art” https://www.newsweekpakistan.com/rebel-art/ (Mar. 8, 2017) Independent “Ijaz ul Hassan: Pakistan’s protest artist” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ijaz-ul-hassan-pakistan-s-protest-artist-758809.html (Nov. 20, 2007) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ijaz-ul-hassan-pakistan-s-protest-artist-758809.html Dawn…
In 1990 Arjun Appadurai wrote a seminal article called “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy”; expanding upon the ramifications of a global village within a cultural context, Appadurai introduced readers to the dynamic diasporic strands of globalization that…
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The Indian subcontinent in 1947 was divided into two countries and three parts: India, West Pakistan and East Pakistan. My essay aims to look into the development of the film industries of the subcontinent, with a focus on Pakistan. Moreover,…
Endnotes‘Revisiting 1947 through Popular Cinema: A Comparative Study of India and Pakistan’, author(s): Gita Viswanath and Salma Malik, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 44, No. 36 (September 5-11, 2009).‘What Pakistan’s film industry lost in 1971’ by Asif Noorani, December 15,…
The monochromatic series of images illustrate the countryside and the ambiance that it offers. There is a certain calmness and stillness in everything that happens at these farmlands— the trees, the people, the stretched plains, all offer a unique quality…
This comprehensive two-part essay has been authored by Dr Suneela Ahmed and Laraib Asdaf respectively. While Ahmed’s writing engages with the swift transformations of the city’s public architecture, with a design language evolving from global influences and local aspirations along…
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