A road to somewhere: the “art anti-university” Karachi LaJamia
Pramodha Weerasekera
In their video work Jinnah Avenue, (2017), Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani, who together form the artist duo and “anti-institution” Karachi LaJamia, ask a rhetorical question: “Did the colonial dream of a road materialize?” Alluding to the British, Portuguese, and Dutch colonial systems’ focus on discovering routes and building roads and railways to previously “undiscovered” areas populated by “uncivilized” peoples, …