Learn to Swim Lessons Session 1, 2016
Learn to Swim Lessons Session 1 is a participatory performance. It will involve us, them, and I to unravel.
I have always feared water. Not faucet water, shallow and deep waters.
Many things contributed to this: no control over access to pools or lessons, the lack of wardrobe compromise, the fear of drowning while learning.
Whenever we had visitors from out of town my dad would take them on the Circle Line to show off the sites. The pride was a similar sentiment of the photos him and my mom would send to Pakistan of the rooms in our house. I would go along and wonder if there were enough life vests on the ship or if the East River would burn a hole through my body if we sank. And then my body would bump into all the dead bodies in the river.
I have always feared the water and so disliked and tried to stay away from it. And I stayed in my bubble of non-swimmers. And being away from water made me, funnily and unconsciously, collect so many images of water in a land that is inland.
Stay Tuned for the video documentation from Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYC
Learn to Swim Lessons Session 1 is a participatory performance. It will involve us, them, and I to unravel.
I have always feared water. Not faucet water, shallow and deep waters.
Many things contributed to this: no control over access to pools or lessons, the lack of wardrobe compromise, the fear of drowning while learning.
Whenever we had visitors from out of town my dad would take them on the Circle Line to show off the sites. The pride was a similar sentiment of the photos him and my mom would send to Pakistan of the rooms in our house. I would go along and wonder if there were enough life vests on the ship or if the East River would burn a hole through my body if we sank. And then my body would bump into all the dead bodies in the river.
I have always feared the water and so disliked and tried to stay away from it. And I stayed in my bubble of non-swimmers. And being away from water made me, funnily and unconsciously, collect so many images of water in a land that is inland.
Stay Tuned for the video documentation from Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYC
