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Ten Years of Karachi LaJamia

Art South Asia Project (ASAP) was delighted to host the Art Murmur “Ten Years of Karachi LaJamia” on Thursday 26th September on Zoom. Artist Fiza Khatri was in conversation with Zahra Malkani and Shahana Rajani, reflecting on Karachi LaJamia’s collective practice over the past decade. From the outset, Zahra and Shahana envisioned Karachi LaJamia as an “experiment in radical anti-institutional art pedagogy,” aiming to “create a democratic space for the challenging, unlearning, and subversion of institutional pedagogy.” (Art and Politics in the City, 2015). Over the years, the collective have hosted several groundbreaking experimental pedagogy courses in Karachi, laying the foundation for younger artists to engage with the landscape and indigenous ecologies of Sindh, Pakistan. Ten years on, Karachi LaJamia has been featured in numerous exhibitions, papers, symposia and publications, including Colomboscope and the Lahore Biennale in 2024, and will be speaking at the Creative Time Summit in New York this month. In conversation with their close friend and colleague Fiza, Zahra and Shahana reflected on a decade of practice and its relevance to the contemporary moment. The talk explored how the artists manipulate visuality through subversive maps and cartographies as tools for mediating and expressing their relationship with the land in Karachi and Sindh. As both artists and educators, they discussed how Karachi LaJamia has cultivated a slow, relational model of working that resists capitalist production, offering an alternative framework for art practices centred on research, learning, and building solidarities on the ground. About the Speakers Karachi LaJamia was founded in 2015 by artists Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani as a nomadic space moving outside the institution to explore new radical pedagogies and art practices. We have facilitated a series of site-specific courses and collaborative research projects to explore the intersections of militarism, climate crisis, indigenous dispossession, and knowledge production in Karachi. Our courses are developed in close collaboration with local organisations and activists to build solidarity with ongoing struggles around land, water and development in the city. Fiza Khatri was born and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. Their work represents intimate portraits and gatherings of human and nonhuman inhabitants of their community. They remix imagery from lived experiences, imagined fantasies, sacred landscapes, and archival research to imbricate the social, sacral, and political stakes of building ecosystems of cohabitation. Khatri received their MFA from Yale School of Art in 2023, and was awarded a BA from Mount Holyoke College in 2015. They were the recipient of a Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting & Sculpture in 2023 and their work was featured in Phaidon Press’s 2022 publication ‘Great Women Painters.’ Their work has been exhibited most recently at Semiose, Paris (2024); Micki Meng, San Francisco (2024); Thomas Erben Gallery, New York (2023); Perrotin Gallery, New York (2023); GRIMM, London (2023); The Clemente, New York (2022); Twelve Gates Arts, Piladelphia (2022); Jhaveri Contemporary, online viewing room (2021); IVS Gallery, Karachi (2019); and Photo Kathmandu, Kathmandu (2018).