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 ).

Mauj is at Station No.7 at Shanaakht.



Evening Schedule
http://citizensarchive.org/?page_id=74

Day Schedule / Permanent Exhibits
http://citizensarchive.org/?page_id=68

The Citizens Archive of Pakistan

Imperial Gardens (Do Talwar, Clifton)

November 9, 10 &11, 2009

Open to Schools between 9 A.M. – 1 P.M.

Free and Open to the Public between 3 P.M. – 9 P.M.

Balochi dancers from Lyari at the Danceoff in Karachi dancing to the song "thewa"

Dance off Karachi 30th October, Leena Ahmed improvising on tabla as music from a Columbian track plays in the background, echo is in the song not a faulty sound effect!

Join us live on http://www.idanceoff.org/

30th October Friday

to see a collaborative dance event between 4 countries
9pm onwards Karachi time

Participating from:

UK
Arc Space Manchester http://www.arcspacemanchester.org.uk/

Columbia http://intermundos.org/

Brazil http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164668788939&ref=ts#/event.php?eid=164668788939&ref=share

Pakistan http://www.maujmedia.blogspot.com

This event has been made possible by the Arts Council of Uk

Mauj, Karachi will be streaming from http://www.selfworld.net/chambre.swf?id=31

thanks to www.selfworld.net, Ivan Chauband, Jean Noel and Alejo

Mauj met Kathrin Becker for lunch on 15th October.

Kathrin Becker, is a Berlin based curator and work currently as the head of the n.b.k. Video-Forum. The Video-Forum was establisehd in 1971 and is the eldest video collection in Germany . It has ca. 1000 works of international video artists from the early years of video art in the late 1960s to the present. (www.nbk...org)

It was a wonderful meeting, she has a great sense of humour and we enjoyed talking to her about our work, her experience with archiving the nbk video collection and other fun things

watching "Entangled"













the room with Pakistani artists
curated by Niilofar Farrukh












journalists conference for Artweek













Navoyie Theatre and Opera House
with poster for Sting concert










watching "Entangled"