Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2024 Presentation — Queer South Asian Dreaming and Kin-Making Through the Curatorial by Aziz Sohail

Synopsis

In his presentation, Aziz presents three projects “In Search of Baba Singh” (2019), “Archival Intimacies: Queering South/East Asian Diasporas” (2022), and “The World that Belongs to Us” (2023) that interweave their research around histories of South Asian diasporas, archive as a site of possibility, kin-making, and activism and kin-making through the curatorial.

About Aziz Sohail

Aziz is a Pakistani-born curator, writer, and researcher whose work builds interdisciplinary connections between art, history, archives, literature, theory, and biography and supports new cultural and pedagogical infrastructures. Their research and resultant projects honour and recognise the power of queer and feminist collectivity, sociability, joy, and wayward encounter.