Kafkhanistan

Kafkhanistan explores the world of present-day travel and tourism to Afghanistan and Pakistan; it is an image of that world based on actual happenings. It weds conventional ethnography in the anthropological sense - and artistic expression through multimedia art. As such it is a visual expression of the perceptual experience of place and how this is developed in tandem with a sense of one’s being, particularly when dealing with fear and violence, areas that breed confusion, ambiguity and doubt. It also focuses on the futility of communicating these immediate and personal experiences because of the power of hindsight, especially in the media, and critical reflection in general, to reason, to explain away and conceptualized experiences that have often more in common with the absurd, chaotic and irrational than their opposites.
The outcome of the project is/will be a multimedia exhibition, two films, a book, a postcard serious and a webpage.

www.kafkanistan.com