Karachi Biennale 2022 is Pakistan’s largest contemporary art event which is happening now at nine venues across Karachi and NED is one of them.
Through Karachi Biennale 2022, there is so much to discover with artworks and performances by artists from 13 countries until Sunday, 13th November. Here are our top pickups:
1) MICROTONAL 
Art Description: ‘Microtonal’ takes the form of an interactive, data-driven sound sculpture created from 200 Borindos made by Allahjurrio and Faqir Zulfiqar in Badin. The Borindo is an instrument that can be dated back 5,000 years and was resurrected by the Faqir’s father and Allahjurrio. Through sound, the work uses this deep cultural and personal history with the objects to explore the encoded symbolism held within this instrument.
Their groundbreaking work is on display at NED University City campus near Burns Road.
2) Audio Placebo Plaza
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You can visit to see their work is on display at NED University City campus near Burns Road.
3) Lines of Force
Visual artist Syeda Sheeza Ali creates surprising encounters with art and science. Visit Sambara Art gallery to interact with her kinetic work, Lines of Force.
Pakistan’s largest international contemporary art event. The KB22, is Collective Imagination : Now and the Next curated by Faisal Anwar.
4) DISCO APOCALYPSE
The installation ‘DISCO APOCALYPSE’ by PlugIn Human uses audio/visual elements collected and created during the artists’ time in locations such as Amazonia (Brazil), Gamboa (Panama), Batticoloa (Sri Lanka), Karachi (Pakistan), Gili Trawangan (Indonesia) and on Koori lands (Australia). The artists “acknowledge the First Peoples and communities of these lands. We came to these landscapes with presence and intention and pay respect to the culture, lives and struggles of these peoples and lands.”
The disco’s visuals are an amalgam of traditional art, science, computational mathematics and graphic design. They feature First Nations war shields re-imagined here, by Yorta Yorta Australian artist Lorraine Brigdale, as a tool for the protection of natural ecosystems. Accompanying these are enlarged microscopic and generative-computational imagery.
PlugIn Human from Australia use traditional cultural practices and the medium of light to translate complex data into meaningful audience experiences.
Their groundbreaking work is on display at @sambara Sambara Gallery, Opposite Liaquat National Hospital , Stadium Road.
Curated by Faisal Anwar.
Engro is the lead partner of the third Karachi Biennale (KB22), which focuses on the intersection of art and technology. The Karachi Biennale 2022 will take place from October 31 to November 13 at 9 venues across the city.
5) Wall of Thoughts
Young Bilal Jabbar is the recipient of the KB22 Engro Emerging Artist Prize. His award-winning proposal has been realized into an intriguing work, “Wall of Thoughts”, created from domestic utensils. It’s now on display at Sambara Gallery, Stadium Road (open 10 am to 5 pm daily till Nov 13).
KB22 fosters young talent and is excited to celebrate Bilal’s innovative work and continuing artistic evolution.
6) It Lies Beyond
‘It Lies Beyond’ challenges viewer’s perception of what is inside and outside, close and distant, within and without, real and fictional while bridging and dismantling these binaries simultaneously, opening questions of the “nature versus man-made”. An ominous, serene seascape that, on a closer inspection, reveals the heaps of garbage that it is composed of. This matrix of garbage also contains within it the illustrations and paintings of sailing ships. Through these metaphors, this installation refers to the post-renaissance materialist inquiry, the explorations of and expansions to the other worlds, sea-trade, colonization, industrial revolution, consumerism followed by global climate change resulting in various natural calamities like recent floods – all unfolding as various chapters of a saga that begins and ends with waters.
Rashid Rana is known for his pioneering works in new media art from Pakistan. Notable for conceptual innovation and dramatic visual strategies, Rana depicts the familiar and everyday; encompassing themes such as identity, space-time, and duality. He is the recipient of the 2017 Asia Art Award by the Asia Society (NYC). His work is on display at NED university City Campus.
