At a time when art schools and art production in Pakistan have become increasingly depoliticised, there is an urgency to re-examine our art institutions and their colonial systems which produce and sustain socio-cultural hegemonies. We need to confront these oppressive histories of educational institutions and seek to decolonise this system by imagining new possibilities for pedagogy and political art practice. We must always remember that the turn of post-colonialism occurs inside the ideological space of the colonial. Our writers Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani examine the issue

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, August 2nd, 2015

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