House Artist Residency III – Lahore (2018)
The third iteration of the House Artist Residency (HAR 2018–03) encouraged participants to investigate themes that held deep personal significance while simultaneously engaging with broader social, political, and cultural realities. The performances developed during the residency demonstrated how individual experiences are often inseparable from the larger structures and histories that shape everyday life.
Artists drew upon intimate narratives, memories, and lived experiences, situating them within wider contexts of urban life, national identity, ethnicity, gender, and politics. Through performance, participants examined the intersections between the personal and the collective, revealing how private struggles are often informed by broader social conditions and systems of power.
The works created during HAR 2018–03 moved fluidly between autobiography and social commentary, using the body as a site through which larger questions of belonging, identity, representation, and agency could be explored. By weaving together personal and societal narratives, the residency fostered a nuanced understanding of performance as a medium capable of connecting individual subjectivities to shared cultural and political realities.
Through these investigations, HAR 2018–03 further expanded House’s commitment to performance as a space for critical reflection, embodied research, and dialogue, demonstrating the potential of personal experience to illuminate wider social concerns.
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