Ehtisham Azhar
My interests concern concepts of identity, freedom and incarceration, in the context of geo-politics, power relations and the notion of the panopticon. Invoking the theatrical, the body alone has the capacity to express itself in a given space; thus generating interest in the schizophrenic tendency of these encounters to have multiple identities (political and psychological) creating psychosis.
Tending to the above issues my work now instead of presenting discourses has turned into a dialogue, becoming inevitably interdependent for its growth on the insidious character or rather multiple layers. This contributes to the state /dialogue in which each of these encounters/happenings are catapulted, resulting in a flux of interchanging multiplicities of meaning which grows with the time spent in these happenings. The contradictions or dualities and the tension within the work or the encounter also support the nature of my practice.