Artistic Works
PERFORMANCES
INSTALLATIONS
SHORT VIDEOS
short videos
I serve as Founding/Artistic Director for Voices Breaking Boundaries, and I produce living room art shows, while also creating installations for the openings.
November 2008: To kick off a new Voices Breaking Boundaries' series that juxtaposes joys, struggles and the culture of the US and Pakistan, I created a short video collage, "Why Are You Looking at Me Like That?" For still images, I also used photographs that I took at a peace rally in downtown Karachi, and in Houston, using my Flip camera, I collected stolen images from a gun show. The opening soundtrack of the collage is an excerpt from an interview with me shortly after Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. (I was in Karachi at the time, and Robert Pruitt on KPFT Pacifica Radio 90.1 FM's Living Art interviewed me shortly after.) The second soundtrack is a recording of myself reading a poem that I wrote after going to the gun show. This short video has also been screened at the Jaipur International Film Festival (January 2009) and in Cairo's Medrar Contemporary Arts' 4th Annual Film Festival (October 2010).
September 2008: I created a short video collage, Seeking Solidarity, for VBB's 2008-09 season opener, Brown in the Third Ward. The collage includes underwater shots of two girls swimming (taken by Eric Hester), and the soundtracks are a mix of my daughter's heartbeat recorded while I was still pregnant by Michael Woodson, and the voices of three artists (Robert Pruitt, Ivette Roman and myself) conversing about issues of race and class. I will be uploading the video soon for viewing.