BDSM X HIRA NABI
Listen now to the NDSM X (Un) monumenting special with Hira Nabi.
Pakistani artist and filmmaker Hira Nabi in this episode of NDSM X, she opens a booklet about her film All That Perishes At The Edge Of Land, will be shown at the exhibition (Un) monument: The Future Should Always Be Better.
In this film, the viewer sees how large cargo ships, when depreciated, are sailed to the beach from Gadani in Balochistan, Pakistan, to be disassembled by workers under appalling conditions. The materials extracted in this process are resold or recycled. What does this work say about the consumer society we live in? What happens to “things” when we throw them away? Listen to this special episode of NDSM X now!
“If you send things far away, where do you imagine they actually go? They become out of sight, but they don't actually disappear” - Hira Nabi
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Presentation: Curator Petra Heck & Ewa Scheifes
Production: Eric's House at NDSM
Image: Robin van Dijk