Yaminay Chaudri

Yaminay Chaudhri, Critic in Film, Video, & Media
Webpage: https://www.karachibeachradio.net

Yaminay is an artist and educator with a background in combined-media visual art, and architecture design. She is influenced by southern urban theory, situationist / socially engaged practice and the politics of low-res media. Yaminay’s art practice unpacks architectures of aspiration and the loss of the commons in the South Asian metropolis – particularly, Karachi. Her work moves across the personal and the collective, house and the city, using video, installation, sound, and neighborhood participation. She juxtaposes the aspirations of upwardly mobile families with worlding aspirations of the state, to make visible the disappearance of the commons. The heart of her work archives the commons as it disappears, creates new commons via engagement, and attempts to shift popular imaginaries of aspirational spaces. Yaminay has organized several experiments in collectivity and collaboration, starting with the cofounding of Tentative Collective in Karachi (2011-2017) and Karachi Beach Radio (2018- ongoing). She has been an Art Dubai Writing Fellow; and visiting assistant professor at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Interior Architecture Department. She currently teaches at the Yale School of Art. Her work has been exhibited in numerous art venues internationally, including Lahore Biennale 02, Lahore; Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Sharjah Art Foundation and Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah; AAN Gandhara Art Space, and Karachi Biennale, Karachi; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Sarai and IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival, New Delhi; and Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia.

http://www.tentativecollective.com