This projection installation is based on the recollections of 4 twenty-somethings in Karachi, Pakistan. One talks about her grandparents’ home and life pre-Partition in Lucknow, India. One talks about his own recent migration from Karachi to Toronto, Canada, and back. One describes her ‘family home’ in Goa, India, and another talks about her grandmother’s journey from Burma to India during WWII. The different stories, are based on a fantasy, lived trauma, an imposed identity based on one’s heritage, and family lore.

The voices are layered over and under each other via four speakers, resonating through the repetition, pairing and juxtapositioning of words. The voices are synchronised with the images in two of the three projections. The three projections in the installation present three types of images. The main projection comprises mainly of photographs I made of the narrators’ homes and objects, and also video of places passed enroute to these places. They are my documentation of the people I met. The second projection is of mainly video of two participants in the project telling me, via their mouths

and their drawings, what happened, and in this way a documentation of the way they present their narratives. The third projection is footage taken from the taxis I took while I navigated the city, with the Urdu-English bilingual radio in the background.

The video and photographs are projected onto screens in the form of parcels, projection fabric, calico and plexiglas. These materials allow the images to be seen frontally and in reverse, to be layered through more translucent fabric, and also to be fragmented. The projections and audio come together in the space as visually and orally disembodied and fractured narratives. They foreground negotiations one makes with oneself and with families and communities as one moves, as one recalls an inherited migration, and the influences these trajectories have. The installation also asks how audiences can negotiate the document, present as image and voice, in relation to their subjectivities and perspectives.