In collaboration with House Ltd. and Highlight Arts, Justice Project Pakistan presents ‘We’ve Been Waiting For You’, a performance art exhibition to commemorate the 17th annual World Day Against the Death Penalty by exploring themes of power, isolation, and systemic control over life and death.
Curated by Natasha Jozi with creative direction by Ryan Van Winkle, the exhibition consists of 10 performances by 11 artists with varying approaches to highlighting the plight of prisoners exploited by the system, as well as the broader social and cultural meaning of death, life, security, and safety in a society where violence is monopolized by the state.
Program Details
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Mulaqaat – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
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The Shape of Things to Come – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
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Shadow of Night – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
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The Birth of Debris – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
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You Melt My Heart Into Bits and Pieces – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
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Stuck in the Middle – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
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Sink – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
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Resuscitate – 6:45 – 7:15 pm
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Bare, Barren, Barbed – 7:30 – 7:45 pm
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Can I Braid Your Hair Tonight? – 8:15 – 8:45 pm
About the Collaborators
About Natasha Jozi:
Natasha Jozi is a visual thinker, performance artist, writer and curator.
Jozi has participated in various exhibitions and festivals nationally and internationally, including Karachi Biennale (2019), Loudspeaker, VaslArt (2019), Beneath the Surface, MAWA Canada (2019). She has performed in various performance festivals in Venice, New York, UK, Sri Lanka, Chicago and Switzerland.
In 2017 Jozi founded House Ltd. an independent initiative dedicated to generate discourse around performance art in Pakistan. Her curatorial projects include Body Becoming, Open House, and We Are All Mad Here.
Ryan Van Winkle is a poet, editor and live artist living in Edinburgh. His second collection, The Good Dark, won the Saltire Society’s 2015 Poetry Book of the Year award.
His poems have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, New Writing Scotland and The American Poetry Review.
As a member of Highlight Arts he has organized festivals and translation workshops in Syria, Pakistan and Iraq. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson fellowship in 2012 and the Jessie Kesson fellowship at Moniack Mhor in 2018. www.ryanvanwinkle.com
Baqer Ahmadi
Title: The Birth of Debris
Time: 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Bio: Baqer Ahmadi is an Afghan artist interested in the relationship between art and philosophy. His work centers around the human experience of history.
Mulaqaat – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
The Shape of Things to Come – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Shadow of Night – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
The Birth of Debris – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
You Melt My Heart Into Bits and Pieces – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Stuck in the Middle – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Sink – 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Resuscitate – 6:45 – 7:15 pm
Bare, Barren, Barbed – 7:30 – 7:45 pm
Can I Braid Your Hair Tonight? – 8:15 – 8:45 pm
Nayyab Naveed
Title: Bare, Barren, Barbed
Time: 7:30 – 7:45 pm
Bio: Nayyab Naveed is a writer and artist interested in trauma, esoteric thought and individual experience. She recently performed at Body Becoming (2018). She is currently doing her Bachelors in History from the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Aisha Ahmed & Waleed Sajid
Title: Can I Braid Your Hair Tonight?
Time: 8:15 – 8:45 pm
Bio: Aisha Ahmed and Walid Sajid are an artist duo who perform pieces based on constructed power dynamics between one another.
Ahmed Khan
Title: Shadow of Night
Time: 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Bio: Ahmed Khan was born in Teertaj in Awaran, Balochistan and has a background in both art and engineering. His work has been exhibited in Karachi, Jamshoro, Hyderabad, Lahore, and Islamabad. He is currently completing his MA Hons in Visual Art from National College of Art, Lahore, and maintains a practice as a performance artist.
Haider Shah
Title: Resuscitate
Time: 6:45 – 7:15 pm
Bio: Haider Shah is a performance artist whose work tests the endurance of the human body and the limits of its relationship to natural elements.
Kanwal Tariq
Title: The Shape of Things to Come
Time: 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Bio: Kanwal Tariq is a Lahore-based artist whose work centers around the relationship between the organic body and physical materials. She is a graduate of National College of Arts, Lahore.
Fatima Butt
Title: You Melt My Heart Into Bits and Pieces
Time: 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Bio: Fatima Butt is a Lahore-based artist who believes that art serves as a medium to communicate. Looking past the prominent and towards the unnoticed is what inspires her.
Waleed Sajid
Title: Can I Braid Your Hair Tonight?
Time: 8:15 – 8:45 pm
Bio: Aisha Ahmed and Walid Sajid are an artist duo who perform pieces based on constructed power dynamics between one another.
Mariam Waheed
Title: Mulaqaat
Time: 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Bio: Mariam Waheed is a Lahore-based visual artist. She is a graduate from Beaconhouse National University with a distinction in Visual Arts. Her work deals with visual media as well as interactive performances.
Khurram Gillani
Title: Stuck in the Middle
Time: 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Bio: Khuram Gillani is an artist producing work dealing with the physical and mental experience of violent institutions. His practice is largely based around social commentary and his own personal experiences.
Hamna Khalid
Title: Sink
Time: 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Bio: Hamna Khalid is a senior at NCA currently doing her Bachelors Degree in Miniature Painting. She has previously worked with House and has exhibited at Olomopolo (2018) as part of the performance art exhibition Body Becoming curated by Natasha Jozi.
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