RAZE TO THE GROUND!
/ POLITICS OF PLAYGROUNDS
2015-2016
Abbottabad, Pakistan
Lecture Performance + Book
How to Forget? / Fear of Remembering
Video:1:15 Mins
Journey to Another Ground Zero
Video: 4:41 Mins
Waiting for the Playground
Video: 4:10 Mins
Usama Bin Laden death site in Pakistan Abbottabad is a site of an important historic event. The event which wasn’t an honorable for Pakistan Army nor for the whole nation, put the authorities into difficult situation, how to deal with the site? ‘Raze to the Ground/Politics of Play Ground’ tried to document the ongoing discussions on, How to deal with Usama bin laden death site in regional, national and international context? Are the decisions, which have been taken in Pakistan a right way of dealing with the site? And sometimes monuments are not needed to make a site memorable, its emptiness offers place for more effective remembrance. To cover a trauma with entertainment is right way of dealing issues of negative and at the same time traumatic events?
Selected Lecture Performances & Artist talks
Presented at various art institutions and art spaces internationally including Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2. Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Utopia School Copenhagen and Sanat Gallery Karachi
Supported by Kreativfonds, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
RAZE TO THE GROUND!
/ POLITICS OF PLAYGROUNDS
2015-2016
Abbottabad, Pakistan
Lecture Performance + Book
How to Forget? / Fear of Remembering
Video:1:15 Mins
Journey to Another Ground Zero
Video: 4:41 Mins
Waiting for the Playground
Video: 4:10 Mins
Usama Bin Laden death site in Pakistan Abbottabad is a site of an important historic event. The event which wasn’t an honorable for Pakistan Army nor for the whole nation, put the authorities into difficult situation, how to deal with the site? ‘Raze to the Ground/Politics of Play Ground’ tried to document the ongoing discussions on, How to deal with Usama bin laden death site in regional, national and international context? Are the decisions, which have been taken in Pakistan a right way of dealing with the site? And sometimes monuments are not needed to make a site memorable, its emptiness offers place for more effective remembrance. To cover a trauma with entertainment is right way of dealing issues of negative and at the same time traumatic events?
Selected Lecture Performances & Artist talks
Presented at various art institutions and art spaces internationally including Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2. Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Utopia School Copenhagen and Sanat Gallery Karachi
Supported by Kreativfonds, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar