This project endeavours to generate visually stirring, collective experiences in outdoor public spaces in Pakistan's leading metropolis, Karachi. The main objective is to generate dialogues within and about marginalized and ethnically stratified communities by using travelling projections of cell phone videos. The screenings held in different unplanned settlements across Karachi will generate a rich exchange that crosses social, cultural and religious boundaries. In Pakistan, and perhaps elsewhere as well, it is rare to find such artistic interventions concerning the city. Key questions posed are: How might we re-think and interrogate site-specific practices? How should we conceive of the Pakistani/South Asian city? What constitutes the public sphere?

(Project to be implemented in two separate phases)

PI: Nausheen Hafeeza Anwar