second practice is a collaborative research & publishing practice by Fatima Hussain, Abeerah Zahid and Ayesha Kamal Khan that brings together their individual interests; critical inquiry into postcolonial geographies, tensions of polarity and displacement within urban and diasporic contexts and participatory ways of disseminating knowledge by exploring trans-disciplinary methodologies in artistic practice. By becoming a counterpart to their individual practice, second practice adopts distance and offers a rather unguarded lens to view, comment and respond to their primary practice by drawing out considered positions in formats predisposed to sharing and circulation.
In the midst of a collaborative project they are working with 15 contributors for The Artist as Translator. In the recent past, they did a year-long research project for Lahore Biennale Foundation (LBF) on locating audiences for contemporary arts in Pakistan. Second practice is also currently developing a sound dictionary by locating newer formats of recording sound that move beyond the inquiries of recording technologies to be able to re/present sonorous enculturated worlds inhabited by people. Previously, they have collaborated on various projects previously that have been shown at Richmix UK, Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq Lahore and at the Independent Curators International NY.
An ongoing project in collaboration with 15 contributors from the global south.
is a self published handbook considering approaches to Drawing for unlearning and teaching primary, secondary and higher education.
(2019, edition of 23, cover by Jazib Jacob)
Access Audience/ Audience Access
is a report that set out to research the emergence of new audiences for contemporary art in Pakistan granted by Lahore Biennale Foundation AAN Research Grant in 2019. The report expands upon an ongoing archive that was assembled in locating these engagements in an attempt to arrive at our own definition of participation in the context of Pakistan.
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/134kRSB3iXM_E4ENsjI0fU2WxSxjkurdA