Censorship

Around this enormous, ancient country in five music videos, Iran’s vibrant creative scene thrives despite censorship and oppression. Western music is frowned upon, dancing and women singing in public are illegal, and yet musicians reach the exiled diaspora via the internet.

«TIMEZONES» – Episode 19. This episode gives you a feel of what it’s like to be an artist in Karachi, Pakistan. A city of a million plus dreams, hopes, and problems. According to Ali Gul Pir, the most misunderstood place in the world.

Sumangala Damodaran situates Delhi as a site for the unfolding of a radical imaginary through music. She shares her artistic journeys in the city and recent work that traces a thick constellation of connections between Afroasian contemporary musics and migratory movements.

A sound collage excerpted from an audio-visual game that the artist is designing in an attempt to reconstruct erased narratives from school history textbooks across India and facilitate a discussion on censored histories.