Zulfikar Ali Bhutto uses diverse media to critique complex sociopolitical topics. His work “This Means War 2” employs repetitive found video footage from the India Pakistan war of 1972 to confront the audience’s contextual viewing position here at residence in San Francisco. Contemporary Western media is saturated with images of brown men marching in the streets for what is often described as a radicalised and dangerous Islamic world. Ali Bhutto’s thoughtful presentation of this archival imagery allows it to take on new meanings, tending to disturb an otherwise comfortable audience.
On view from the street ---> April 2nd at nightfall through to the closing:
April 3 ---> Closing gathering & discussion 8-9pm. *please RSVP via eventbrite*
Questions? Comments? ---> [email protected]
More info --->
The Partition of Bangladesh from Pakistan remains one of the least spoken and yet most violent civil wars in world history with a death toll of three million in only a few months. Protests over the war spread to India - as shown in 'This Means War 2' - which quickly became involved in the conflict.
Artist Bio --->
As an artist of mixed Pakistani and Lebanese descent I see my body caught in the middle of complex identity politics formed by centuries of colonialism and exacerbated by contemporary international politics. In my work I not only explore issues of state violence but how that violence resonates in our collective memory, how it forms and shapes communities and by extension how it affects the individual.
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On view from the street ---> April 2nd at nightfall through to the closing:
April 3 ---> Closing gathering & discussion 8-9pm. *please RSVP via eventbrite*
Questions? Comments? ---> [email protected]
More info --->
The Partition of Bangladesh from Pakistan remains one of the least spoken and yet most violent civil wars in world history with a death toll of three million in only a few months. Protests over the war spread to India - as shown in 'This Means War 2' - which quickly became involved in the conflict.
Artist Bio --->
As an artist of mixed Pakistani and Lebanese descent I see my body caught in the middle of complex identity politics formed by centuries of colonialism and exacerbated by contemporary international politics. In my work I not only explore issues of state violence but how that violence resonates in our collective memory, how it forms and shapes communities and by extension how it affects the individual.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto uses diverse media to critique complex sociopolitical topics. His work “This Means War 2” employs repetitive found video footage from the India Pakistan war of 1972 to confront the audience’s contextual viewing position here at residence in San Francisco. Contemporary Western media is saturated with images of brown men marching in the streets for what is often described as a radicalised and dangerous Islamic world. Ali Bhutto’s thoughtful presentation of this archival imagery allows it to take on new meanings, tending to disturb an otherwise comfortable audience.
On view from the street ---> April 2nd at nightfall through to the closing:
April 3 ---> Closing gathering & discussion 8-9pm. *please RSVP via eventbrite*
Questions? Comments? ---> [email protected]
More info --->
The Partition of Bangladesh from Pakistan remains one of the least spoken and yet most violent civil wars in world history with a death toll of three million in only a few months. Protests over the war spread to India - as shown in 'This Means War 2' - which quickly became involved in the conflict.
Artist Bio --->
As an artist of mixed Pakistani and Lebanese descent I see my body caught in the middle of complex identity politics formed by centuries of colonialism and exacerbated by contemporary international politics. In my work I not only explore issues of state violence but how that violence resonates in our collective memory, how it forms and shapes communities and by extension how it affects the individual.
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On view from the street ---> April 2nd at nightfall through to the closing:
April 3 ---> Closing gathering & discussion 8-9pm. *please RSVP via eventbrite*
Questions? Comments? ---> [email protected]
More info --->
The Partition of Bangladesh from Pakistan remains one of the least spoken and yet most violent civil wars in world history with a death toll of three million in only a few months. Protests over the war spread to India - as shown in 'This Means War 2' - which quickly became involved in the conflict.
Artist Bio --->
As an artist of mixed Pakistani and Lebanese descent I see my body caught in the middle of complex identity politics formed by centuries of colonialism and exacerbated by contemporary international politics. In my work I not only explore issues of state violence but how that violence resonates in our collective memory, how it forms and shapes communities and by extension how it affects the individual.
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