Overview
Hajra Waheed’s multidisciplinary practice explores issues including the relationship between surveillance and the networks of power that structure human lives, while also addressing the alienation of displaced subjects affected by legacies of colonial and state violence. Housed within a uniquely built conical sound chamber and composed entirely of voice, the multichannel sound installation Hum II (2023) explores humming and other vocal practices as a means to consider radical forms of collective and sonic agency.
The work amplifies seven songs that have been central to popular uprisings, mass social movements and anti-colonial struggles across the Americas, Africa and Asia, where women have been at the forefront.