Fragmented Futures | Opening Reception on Saturday, November 16, 5PM |
Featuring Music by Yusuf Misdaq and a reading by Wazina Zondon
Fragmented Futures: Afghanistan 100 Years Later
November 16, 2019-January 12, 2020
The year 2019 marks the centennial of some of the first attempts to engineer a “modern Afghan state” following the third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919. Attempts by foreign powers to incorporate Afghanistan into the economic and political life of the international community had mixed results for the country and its people. Using the centennial as a guiding theme, Fragmented Futures seeks to address the ongoing consequences of foreign intervention, which are key to understanding Afghanistan’s current struggles to be self-sufficient.
The exhibit expands the conversation beyond depictions of Afghanistan and its diaspora as either simply victims of imperial agendas or completely independent of them. Rather, Fragmented Futures sheds light on how people’s everyday aspirations became interrupted, transformed, and reborn in both the diaspora and in an ever-changing Afghanistan.
Artist/Writers:
Leeza Ahmady (@leezaahmady)
Elyas Alavi (@elyasalavi)
Fazila Amiri (@fazilaamiri)
Hangama Amiri (@hangamaamiri)
Farhad Azad (@afghanmagazine)
Arash Azizzada (@arash87films)
Sabrina Barekzai (@sabrinabarekzai)
Muheb Esmat (@muhebistan)
Shiraz Fazli
Zuhal Feraidon (@zuh4l)
Johanna-Maria Fritz
Mariam Ghani (@whatweleftunfinished @mostlywindows)
Mojib Ghaznawi (@reed_society @m0jib)
Mehdia Hassan
Shamsia Hassani (@shamsiahassani)
Reza Hazare (@rezahazare)
Brian Higbee
Jim Huylebroek (@jimhuylebroek)
Seelai Karzai (@seelaiwrites)
Hanna Kherzai (@hannakherzai)
Jamil Kochai (@jamil_jan_kochai_author)
Yusuf Misdaq (@y_misdaq)
Aman Mojadidi (@amanmojadidi)
Deeva Momand (@deevamomand)
Sahar Muradi (@muradi.sahar)
Neda Olomi (@nedaokart)
Laimah Osman (@lulujani)
Sara Rezaie
Mohammad Sabir (@msabir303)
Susan Saleh (@ssns1h)
Gazelle Samizay (@gsamizay)
Rafi Samizay
Samea Shanori (@samea.art)
Malahat Zhobin (@malzho)
Sara Zhobin (@zhobins)
Wazina Zondon (@wazina)
Zine designed by Rona Akbari
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The opening features “Dust of Time,” a multi-sensory musical performance exploring the Afghan conceptions of Dust, Earth, Land, and their relationships to spirituality and transcendence by Yusuf Misdaq. There will also be a storytelling performance of “Father Tongue,” by Wazina Zondon as part of the project, “Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love.”
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Curated by Gazelle Samizay & Helena Zeweri of AAAWA – Afghan Artists and Writers Association with Ara & Anahid Oshagan of Reflect Space
For more info: https://aaawa.net/fragmented-futures/
