Event
From Inside to Way Out.Perspectives from Contemporary Pakistan
13 May 2016 – 15 May 2016
HAU 1 Hebbel am Ufer
Berlin, Germany
The weekend festival “From Inside to Way Out” confronts the common distortions with representations of the hybrid transculturality of contemporary Pakistan.
The degree to which cultural attributions are marked by clichés becomes clear in the example of Pakistan. As a rule the country is represented as a refuge for terror, religious fanaticism, corruption, and chaos, which would have very little in common with rational western culture. The weekend festival “From Inside to Way Out” confronts these common distortions with representations of the hybrid transculturality of contemporary Pakistan, the existence of which is made possible in the first place by the cultural as well as physical interspaces that avoid these common ascriptions. The three-day programme presents artists, musicians and filmmakers who work in Karachi and Berlin. Their works deconstruct seemingly unified cultural identities on both sides, uncovering surprising commonalities.
With Haamid Rahim, Gebrüder Teichmann, Sonya Schönberger & Shahana Rajani, Pablo Lauf & Khaula Jamil, Salmaan Peerzada & Shireen Pasha, Mahenaz Mahmud, Begam Nawazish Ali, Omar Kasmani, Till Passow, rRoxymore, Peter Pannke amongst others
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