Madiha Aijaz: These Silences are All the Words

Madiha Aijaz's video These Silences Are All The Words explores the locations of three neglected libraries in the city of Karachi, Pakistan, and the disappearance of the Urdu literary tradition. In careful, slow, and nuanced ways, Aijaz investigates the politics of language and culture, the production and dissemination of knowledge, and the simultaneous militarization, surveillance and repression of these sites.

Aijaz reflects on the changing and increasingly divisive landscape of Karachiby activating these alternative spaces and archives of cultural debris, whichrefuse and resist the state’s manipulation of time, history and language.She makes us aware of the hidden rhythms, affective histories, and intimaterelationships of being and belonging that do not follow official dictates.

*This event is presented as part of the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art's current exhbition Notes for Tomorrow--a traveling exhibition organized and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI) and initiated by Frances Wu Giarratano, Jordan Jones, Becky Nahom, Renaud Proch, and Monica Terrero. The exhibition was made possible with the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, VIA Art Fund and ICI’s Board of Trustees andInternational Forum. Additionally Presented by EP Wealth Advisors.

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