Zahra Malkani is a multidisciplinary artist. Her research-based practice explores the politics of development, infrastructure and militarism in Pakistan through the lens of dissident ecological knowledges and traditions of environmental resistance.
She is a co-founder with Shahana Rajani of Karachi LaJamia, an experimental pedagogical project exploring new radical pedagogies in connection with ongoing struggles in Karachi. Zahra is currently a fellow at the Jan Van Eyck Academie where she is working on a sound research project exploring the intersection of mysticism and resistance through sonic and oral traditions in the aquatic landscapes of Pakistan.