Category: In Focus
UBERMENSCH – A conversation between Rashid Rana and Rohma Khan.
“Superman” as we know today follows the conceptual premise conceived by Friedrich Nietzsche in his philosophical centerpiece, Thus Spake Zarathustra, [...]
Conversations about Public Art: An homage to complex form
A few weeks ago I was asked to write about public art, possibly because of my affiliation with the Tentative Collective and our intermittent art exper [...]
Encounters with the Miniature in Pakistan: A Train of Thought
It was 2009 when I was first introduced to the Neo-Miniature in Pakistan. I was a first year student at Brandeis University, and enrolled in Introduct [...]
Upon healing: Collaboration with Qinza Najm
"I was so traumatized last year. You have no idea." Qinza Najm said as we were sitting outdoors at a busy restaurant in Miami Beach with our [...]
The Residency; as Retreat, Relational and Relief
The cropping up of artist residencies in past two or so decades, seems almost be a global phenomenon. A cursory visit to any website that lists calls [...]
Artists’ Residencies and the creative’s world
It’s not that you can’t hear the birds chirping every day. You just have to wake up really early to catch the rhythm of nature, before your [...]
Parallel Trends
The new millennium is a privileged vantage point from which to consider the major achievements of the last century. The idea of South East A [...]
Between the Art & the City LB02: a creative relationship
Ghulam Abbas’s acclaimed short story Over Coat is a character sketch of an anonymous protagonist who goes for a walk on the Mall R [...]
Biennale Fervor and Fever
New local models and place-based structures have emerged as a result of four major Biennales in Pakistan; Karachi Biennale (KB17) in 2017, L [...]
Biennials of the Periphery
Despite the turbulent history of the country and an image of terror and violence, various institutions in Pakistan attempt to portray a soft [...]