World Day Against the Death Penalty: Who is waiting for you?

Just for one night, Bari Studios in Lahore will become an immersive art experience where audience members can stroll through the grounds of the historical studio finding and experiencing performance art closely and personally.

Organized by Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) to commemorate World Day Against the Death Penalty on Thursday, October 10, We have been waiting for you It is an emblematic project curated by Natasha Jozi, with 11 performance artists in a surreal environment.

Last year, JPP presented No Time to Sleep, a 24-hour live broadcast that traces the last hours of a prisoner's death sentence before his execution. In alliance with Dawn.comHe received critical acclaim both nationally and internationally with 1.4 million views, 6,000 tweets and a hashtag that was on Twitter for several hours throughout the presentation.

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This year, these artists have delved into the most vulnerable part of Pakistan's criminal justice system and the mentality of prisoners, guards, family members and executions by creating 10 new, provocative, empathic and sometimes grotesque pieces.

The performances will be of different duration, and some will last up to three hours. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. and will end at 10:30 p.m., while the performances will take place between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

Through them, the public will be asked to reflect on the emotional struggle that affects the nearly 5,000 prisoners sentenced to death in Pakistan, and how this system infects everyone it touches, from the guards to the executioner, the members of the family and, maybe, even you.

Here, you will meet prisoners waiting for justice, executioners who cannot express the profound experience of taking lives day after day and guards who are also trapped in a system that dehumanizes everyone he touches. These performances are designed to chase you for a long time after you leave.

Here are three pieces of the exhibition that the artists will exhibit:

Resurrect by Haider Shah

Negotiating with the criminal justice system in Pakistan may seem useless, like throwing your body against a brick wall. How many times would you be able to increase the strength to stand up, dust off and hit the wall completely? Shah's work tests the resistance of the human body and here gives life to the frustrating battle with the criminal justice system and bureaucracy. In his solo performance, Shah performs a repetitive act of creating and demolishing a brick wall, demonstrating how resistance is channeled through the physical being.

The birth of rubble by Baqer Ahmadi

Executioners perform the same task. Day after day, the bones pile up. Baqer, an artist whose work focuses on human experience, describes this repetitive work as mundane but sinister. In this performance, the meat is cut from the bones and, in a powerful metaphor, the artist alternates between the person of an executioner and a prisoner.

Can I braid your hair tonight? By Aisha Ahmed and Waleed Sajid

Convicted prisoners spend a lot of time wondering about their destiny, not knowing when they will be hanged or if, by some judicial miracle, their lives will be saved. The duo of artists Aisha and Waleed are suspended above the audience with a string mesh. Through their performance, their goal is to create a dynamic of power in which both have fluctuating control over the safety of the other and also exercise power over the viewers below them.