Shahana Rajani

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		<title>Home</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:59:57 +0000</pubDate>

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		<title>a thread, a weave</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2022 11:19:39 +0000</pubDate>

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A thread, a weave, a braid, a riverSingle-channel video. 21:34 minutes(2023)


A thread, a weave, a braid, a river is a public teaching tool in four acts about the rivers of Karachi, Pakistan. It traces the rich and dense networks of waterways centered around the Malir river, which are being destroyed by sand mining and the ongoing construction of the Malir Expressway. It remembers the wet and soaking ecologies of the city, over which infrastructure has conjured the solid grounds of urban planning. Invoking the intimacies of sand and water, desert and delta, it explores ways of relating to the land, environment and each other.&#38;nbsp;


Comissioned by KHOJ India for the World Weather Network Platform. Watch the english version here and the Urdu version here.


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		<title>Karachi Lajamia</title>
				
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Karachi LaJamia
www.karachilajamia.com

with Zahra Malkani(2015–Present)


Karachi LaJamia was founded in 2015 as a nomadic space moving outside the institution to explore new radical pedagogies and art practices. We have facilitated a series of site-specific courses and collaborative research projects to explore the intersections of militarism, climate crisis, indigenous dispossession, and knowledge production in Karachi. Our courses are developed in close collaboration with local organisations and activists to build solidarity with ongoing struggles around land, water and development in the city. We have experimented with a range of research and pedagogical methods, resulting in publications, video works, scholarly texts, browser-based artwork, syllabi, workbooks and an expansive archive of fieldwork.&#38;nbsp;
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Art and Politics in the City
Open Course (May–August 2015)

At a time of heightened repression and censorship, we organized 10 site-specific sessions in Karachi engaging with the pressing concerns of the artist’s relationship to politics. These sessions created a nomadic and non-hierarchical space for shared learning, shifting between different public spaces to collectively explore possibilities for the politicisation of art in the institution and the city. It was an experiment in formulating new languages, new methodologies, new spaces and networks of solidarity, and new alliances within and beyond the university.


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Gadap SessionsOpen Course (2016)

The Gadap Sessions was a site-specific, research-based course that used visual research methods to document the ongoing struggles around development, militarization, climate change and marginalization of indigenous communities, knowledges and histories in the city. The course took as its starting point the ongoing real-estate mega development project of Bahria Town, which is violently transforming over 35,000 acres of land in Gadap (a vast and historical neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city) and unleashing vast dispossession of indigenous Sindhi and Baloch communities to whom this land belongs. 


The course brought together an interdisciplinary team of 13 artists and researchers to collect and produce multiple forms of documentation, mapping and witnessing Gadap as it struggles against erasure – its disappearing and emergent ecologies, new architectures of occupation and resistance, erased histories and persevering struggles. We mapped these intersecting geographies to refuse and contest the imperial visualities and state-sanctioned catographic portrayals of Gadap as a barren wasteland. The course was organized in collaboration with the Karachi Indigenous Rights Alliance.
For more material visit here.

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The Militarized University 
Research project&#38;nbsp;(2017–Present)

A research project that emerges from our growing concern with the accelerated policing of university and cultural spaces under the narrative of countering violent extremism. The post-9/11 global political climate has seen an unprecedented growth in the spheres of cultural and knowledge production in Pakistan. This growth has taken place alongside a simultaneous multi-scalar expansion of the Pakistani state-military apparatus into all spheres of life as well as an influx of global capital with similar wartime agendas into the cultural and academic spheres. We trace the ways in which these dual forces have led to a pervasive culture of surveillance and securitisation under the guise of an unlimited war against terrorism. 


The project has several forms and iterations, including essays, a lecture performance and talks. Link to essays:

“Imperialism, Art and Pedagogy: Notes on Knowledge Production at the Frontlines” (2017).


“The Militarised University and the Everywhere War” (2018).


“Wild Thoughts: Land and Knowledge Enclosures in Karachi” (2024).


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Hamare Siyal Rishte Open Course 
(2021)However much we may bury and build upon it, the landscape demands to be known. The relationship between the city dwellers of Karachi and the ecology of this land has primarily been marked by violence, both slow and spectacular, and a profound alienation. This course sought to move beyond this painful disconnect into recognising and inhabiting, with care, our profound entanglements and shared destinies with this ecology.

The course explored a range of ongoing struggles from disappearing rivers and the climate crisis, to the razed shorelines and the contested islands of Karachi. These battles to defend the ecological body of Karachi are an ancient and ongoing pedagogy. We learn from Karachi’s rich history of resistance and refusal, turning our attention towards the dynamic, oceanic webs of relation and responsibility our aquatic landscape implicates us within.


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Link to essay published in HKW’s Anthropocene Curriculum:&#38;nbsp;“Sensing the Ephemeral Rivers: Notes Towards a Karachi Ecopedagogy” (2021).〜


Stateless study: methods and practices for
unlearning the state


Syllabus (2022)


This syllabus is a proposal
for imagining study as a form of sociality, as a practice for remembering, and
as a method for undoing and unlearning the state. Against all the ways in which
the university is mobilised as a site for building, imagining and perpetuating
the myths and erasures of the nation-state, this syllabus proposes
pedagogical methods and practices to unveil and destabilise the violence of the
nation-building project. To learn, to witness, to connect, in defiance of the boundaries demarcated for us by the state and its institutions, is the work we set out to do.


This syllabus was produced for the exhibition Proposals for a Memorial for Partition curated by Murtazi Vali at Jameel Arts Center Dubai.

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Ecstatic Ecopedagogies&#38;nbsp;
Multi-media installation (2024)
Ecopedagogy is the guiding principle in Karachi LaJamia’s practice, where pedagogy is understood as a mode of connection and collectivity–a practice for building and mending relations with one another and with the environment. Across video, sound and printed matter, the installation shared modes and methods for study as sociality that have emerged from Karachi LaJamia’s ten years of practice. The project was co-commissioned by Rockbund Art Museum and Colomboscope.


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		<title>Exhausted Geographies</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:59:58 +0000</pubDate>

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Exhausted Geographies
www.exhaustedgeographies.com


with Zahra Malkani and Abeera Kamran(2015–2018)


Exhausted Geographies is a collaborative publishing practice. It is a series of publications exploring image, text and the city. Each volume of Exhausted Geographies mobilises a crucial, cross-disciplinary political imaginary to rethink current representations of the city and includes a wide range of topics that provide new insights into the social, spatial and discursive fabric of the cities in the global south.


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		<title>Groundtruthing</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 05:52:52 +0000</pubDate>

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Groundtruthing
Exhibition, Gandhara Art Gallery Karachi

with Zahra Malkani

(2016–18)


Groundtruthing is a research project that examines emerging visualities and landscapes at the intersection of infrastructure, war, and climate change in Pakistan. The exhibition draws on collective, interdisciplinary research and fieldwork conducted with Karachi LaJamia, to make visible the social, economic, physical, and epistemic violence enacted by existing architectures of coloniality and capitalism upon landscapes and built environments. These neo-colonial transformations, influenced by transnational networks of power, finance, and capital, take place in spaces of constructed invisibility. We look at the ways in which war and development manifest in these invisible landscapes and are sustained through environmental violence. These sites are not just performances of power and destruction, but also sites of contention, resistance, adaptation, and survival. The exhibition explores and visualizes structures that facilitate and perpetuate occupation and erasure, alongside practices of living and building that respond to and/or resist these architectural interventions.


Supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts.


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		<title>Jinnah Avenue</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:00:22 +0000</pubDate>

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Jinnah Avenue
Single channel video. 6:21 minutes 


with Zahra Malkani(2017)


This video explores the politics and visuality of road infrastructure in Gadap, Karachi through which the real-estate development of Bahria Town 


is violently transforming and occupying indigenous land. It traces the violence of infrastructure on the earth, ecology and communities to make visible the ways in which these practices are engineering new forms of erasure, disconnection and dispossession. 


Supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.


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		<title>ofstruggle</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:55:18 +0000</pubDate>

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ofstruggle.comnet-art projectwith Zahra Malkani and Abeera Kamran

(2018)


Pahwaro Jabal is the name of a mountain in Karachi’s township of Gadap, which spanned over 3000 acres. Its name is made of two Sindhi words. Pah means musibat, struggle, and waro means wale, belonging to. When Sassui walked this mountain in search of her beloved Punnhu in the twelfth century, people witnessed her suffering and named this mountain after her. 
www.ofstruggle.com is an interactive browser-based archive that traces the rapid and violent destruction of this mountain at the hands of the real estate mega-development corporation Bahria Town. It explores textured, situated and non-hegemonic ways of visualizing landscapes, the emerging architectures of development and securitisation, and practices of living that resist ongoing occupation and erasure. Research was conduced collectively by participants of Karachi LaJamia’s course Gadap Sessions in 2016. This course was organized in collaboration with Karachi Indigenous Rights Alliance. 


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		<title>Rakshas Railways and Unruly Lines</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:23:17 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Shahana Rajani</dc:creator>

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Rakshas Railways and Unruly Lines
Single channel video. 12:22 minutes 

with Zahra Malkani

(2018)


This video work explores the colonial resurgence of railway infrastructure as a result of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor – a process marked by resource extraction, environmental destruction, death and disappearance. It reads these imperial formations, as well as the resistance and refusal of it, through the materiality and ecology of sites of degraded, decaying, encroached and re-purposed railway infrastructure. The video also focus on acts of railway sabotage carried out by separatists in Sindh and Balochistan, drawing on a long tradition of nationalist resistance to colonial infrastructure. 


Supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The project was first conceived as a lecture performance for the event After the Wildly Improbable (curated by Adania Shibli), part of: Why are we here now? A project of Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2017, Berlin.
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		<title>A Gorgon Stare</title>
				
		<link>https://shahanarajani.com/A-Gorgon-Stare</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:09:40 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Shahana Rajani</dc:creator>

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A Gorgon StareText and image on paper,&#38;nbsp;Gandhara Art Gallery
(2018)


A series that explores the neo-colonial regimes of visuality and its militarization of terrain. The work traced the connection between satellite imagery and drone technology, using the examples of the US military’s video-capture technology called the Gorgon Stare that was used for drone warfare in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and satellite imagery used by the mega-development real estate project of Bahria Town in Pakistan. It explores how both these visions depend on systematic narrowing and obscuring, collapsing acts of seeing and killing into one another.


The work looks at glitches in the Gorgon Stare technology – which were explained by US military officials as gaps in the stitching of imagery that manifested as “a large black traingle” – to explore the limits of imperial vision. It imagines these glitches as a resistance in the ground, which materialize as blurs, ghosts and bad images.


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		<title>Vision+Texture</title>
				
		<link>https://shahanarajani.com/Vision-Texture</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:21:37 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Shahana Rajani</dc:creator>

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Vision+Texture


Art Publication and Lecture Performance


with Zahra Malkani(2016)


An audio-visual text reflecting on and working through the archive developed during the Gadap sessions and exploring the processes and politics of research, representation and solidarity through the lens of vision and texture.


This work was developed during a residency at the VASL Artists Collective in Winter 2016.


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