House Artist Residency II – Lahore (2018)
The second iteration of the House Artist Residency (HAR 2018–02) shifted its focus from the external environment to the internal landscape of the body. The performances developed during this workshop were deeply personal and introspective, exploring themes of identity, vulnerability, comfort and discomfort, insecurity, trust, and the complexities of selfhood.
Participants used their bodies as sites of inquiry to examine negotiations of power within their own lived experiences before bringing these intimate explorations into the public sphere. Through performance, they investigated the shifting dynamics between power and powerlessness, security and insecurity, and questioned how these states transformed in the presence of strangers and within shared public spaces.
By translating private experiences into collective encounters, the residency encouraged artists to reconsider the body as both a personal archive and a political site. The resulting performances foregrounded vulnerability not as weakness, but as a critical methodology through which participants could challenge social conventions, negotiate relationships with audiences, and explore new forms of embodied expression within the urban landscape.
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