PAKISTAN

Samandari Ehsaaset (Dcenalo Femines HF-aHa

Four channel audio installation with prints, different durations

Samandari Ehsaasat (Oceanic Feelings, is an audio research PrOject mRYIng through the aquatic landscapes of coastal Sindh and Balochistan where the sonic and the sacred come together at sea. The sounds encountered here emerge from spaces with long, rich histories of oceanic exchange and connection, spaces now devastated by development, militarism and the Pakistani state's infrastructural nationalism. The term oceanic feelings refers to the affective experience of religious or spiritual rapture a moment of ego-death, the dissolution of one own's boundanes into an aquatic, infinite unity. From field recordings at protests and occult rituals by the beach, to folklore and anti-colonial epics, the sounds in this series threaten and entice with those same oceanic undoings, ecstatic border crossings and boundary breakings; sacred ruptures that intervene upon, unravel and transgress Pakistan's shored up sonic hegemonies.