About this Event
Spend an afternoon inside Khajistan’s developing archive.
From 1–4 PM, drop in for Office Hours with the Khajistan team. Explore the Khajistan Portal, ask questions, share observations, and encounter materials from the archive as the team continues to develop new ways of organizing and accessing its collections.
From 4–6 PM, join us for a screening of Javaid Shampoo (2004), directed by Faisal Rehman and Bilal Minto, presented in its Directors’ Cut from the Khajistan Film Vault.
Free popcorn will be provided.
Javaid Shampoo (2004)
The film centers on Javaid, whose family manufactures counterfeit shampoo brands in Lahore’s informal economy. Javaid dreams of escape—show business, militancy in Kashmir, anything that might lift him from the gravity of class and circumstance.
Set during an upper-class celebration, the telefilm skewers aspiration, American influence, commodity culture, and the illusions of upward mobility.
About the Project
For its Session at Recess, , Khajistan is developing the Khajistan Portal, a connected digital environment for accessing and moving through its growing digital archive of more than two million pages of material. The Portal brings together digitized books, magazines, comics, periodicals, films, moving-image media, memes, images, videos, and social media materials from across the "Middle World" (a term coined by Afghan-American scholar, Tamim Ansary, to describe the gestalt of land that has existed under Islamic empires in the last 1400 years or so.)
For the last 5 years, Khajistan has been documenting and preserving the lives, knowledge, art, and creative works of censored peoples in Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, with an intention to expand our archiving efforts to censorious nation-states that now form over the expansive lands of Arabia and Bukhara.
Visit Thursdays - Saturdays, 12-5pm
46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11205
Either the artist or Recess staff will be available to view the project in process.
About Session
Recess’s Session program offers artists flexible time and space to develop ambitious projects in a public setting. Visitors encounter works-in-progress, installations, and collaborative experiments as they evolve in real time.
Session supports the creation of new work by giving artists a project stipend, artist’s fee, technical support, mentorship, and approximately two months to transform Recess into a hybrid of a productive studio space dynamic exhibition platform. Throughout the session, we will facilitate public interactions with the Recess community, as well as connections among intentional communities as identified by each artist. Our hope is that these engagements provide an opportunity for mutually beneficial exchanges that not only refine the artists’ thinking, but that challenge dominant narratives and activate new forms of artmaking.
About Recess
Recess partners with artists, youth, writers, and their chosen publics to create transformative cultural experiences.
Our programs welcome radical thinkers to imagine and shape networks of resilience and safety. By challenging dominant narratives and activating new forms of creative production, Recess defines and advances the possibilities of contemporary art.
Recess is free and open to the public to serve as a meeting place to generate art, ideas and actions.
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