Mariam Ghani

My work explores how histories, places, identities and communities are constructed and reconstructed, and the shifting private and public narratives that comprise and contest those constructions. I am particularly fascinated by border zones, nomanslands, translations, transitions, and the slippages where cultures intersect; security cultures, archives, architectures of democracy, and national imaginaries; places where nature and artifice imitate and influence each other; and cities in conflict and post-conflict conditions.  I work across multiple disciplines and maintain several ongoing, multi-year collaborations (with choreographer Erin Ellen Kelly and visual artist Chitra Ganesh); the constants in my practice are video, site-specific and site-responsive work, database forms (linear and interactive, on and off-line), and art as public dialogue (and vice versa).