‘HEART TO ART’
Episode 14 Season 02
Niilofur Farrukh eminent art critic, author, and curator is conducting these curated interviews for Art TV Pakistan.
Guest artist: Waheeda Baloch
Concept & Direction: Faran Qureshi
Production: Mango media films
About artist:
WAHEEDA BALOCH
Born in 1977 in Mirpurkhas( Pakistan)
Lives and works between Jamshoro (Pakistan) and Karachi (Pakistan)
Waheeda Baloch is an artist, educator and curator, she holds an MA degree in Fine Art, as well as a Master’s degree in Curating from Stockholm University, Sweden. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the Department of Islamic and Asian Art History, University of Bonn, Germany. She has been engaged in research and writing along with working as an artist. Her artistic practice is heavily influenced by her practice of writing. Nowadays, she is based in Jamshoro, where she is working as Assistant Professor at the University of Sindh, she teaches contemporary Art History courses. Baloch works as performance artist and her performance work, The Left to Choose, is remembered as an iconic solo performance piece, which took place at the Art Chowk Gallery Karachi in 2014. She has brought art and music together in an emotionally charged laborious and performance. She is keenly interested in art practice that involves history and historical research. She extracts and develops her work from the history, rewriting of the existing narratives which influence an individual as well as the whole society.
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