Showing posts with label Shakil Awan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakil Awan. Show all posts

Mauj at Shanaakht kids playing "Picture This" designed by Shakil and Ata

Entangled at Shanaakht

Entangled

Mauj Collective

This is a series of videos of several venues in the city. They deal with notions of self-organization, biopower, space, anonymous multitudes, the unconscious concrete, the invisible city and people entangling with physical and bureaucratic regulation. There is the subtleness of regulation, the thriving of life, its compartmentalization, the sense of Being (at home and living Here) with the quest to Become. They are snaps of unplanned planning, between the planned and chaotic – forms of lived urban phenomena in Karachi. The camera zooms from above. The image is of forever being tangled in a lover's curls ( Zulf زلف : Persian ).

اگر نسیم صبا زلف او برافشاند 
ہزار جان مقیّد ز بند برہاند
امیر خسرو ~
  
if the morning breeze, a lock of yours, unloosens 
a thousand lives prisoned, from their cares, are freed 
~ Ameer Khusro



Concept & Videos:
Yasir Husain

Artwork & Programming:
Shakil Awan & Ata Kirmani



What is New Media Art _ Arts Council _ Sun 23 Nov 4-7pm


The Mauj Collective for Open Technology, Art & Culture
is proud to present an evening of discussion
on New Media Art in Pakistan.

What is it? Where is it going? Who are the artists?

Come and hear a range of people speak about their work.
Learn about the ideas and work of the Mauj Collective.
Participate in discussion on future visions for New Media Art in Pakistan.
Date:          Sunday, 23rd November 2008
Time:          4pm to 7pm
Location:    Manzar Akbar Hall, Arts Council, Karachi
Speakers include:

Nilofur Farrukh_art critic, AICA, Nukta Art Magazine
Rob van Kranenburg_Bricolabs, Indonesia & the Netherlands
Shakil Awan_Senior Producer, Visual Content
& the Mauj Collective

Guests will include artists, art critics, art educationists, filmmakers, graphic artists, visual content developers, radio professionals, journalists, cultural operators and managers and those interested in talking and learning about New Media Art. A special guest filmmaker Suzanne Hogendoorn from the Netherlands will be with us to cover the event.

Refreshments will be served.

RSVP or for more info:
please call 03008294621, 03462024998
or email:    maujmail //at // googlegroups //dot// com