Author: Osman Bari

Positioning my own relationship to cricket within a collective consciousness and memory embedded in the playing and following of the sport in Pakistan, this project reconstructs events and spaces that occupy significant moments in the post-colonial history of Pakistani cricket. A set of commemorative objects have been laser- cut and arranged together to form the… Continue reading Collecting as Recollecting

I’ve developed this diagram to better understand how kinship might work. If that is the starting point, then I imagine kinship is developed through nostalgia. Nostalgia, in turn, can only exist as a result of lived experience. And that lived experience, when combined with the lived experience of others (especially when engaging in similar things,… Continue reading A diagram for kinship

Transitioning my enquiry across terms, I began to position the role of bats as symbols of cricket’s material culture within a broader range of commemorative and archival objects that have been used to preserve and document (the predominantly British) history of the sport. The various forms of representation tend to begin as utilitarian — things… Continue reading Looking at cricket’s material culture

In a similar spirit to Althea Green’s archival and research practice of ‘Slide Walks’, this publication presents an archive of, and the performance of archiving, two used cricket bats acquired at a market, to consider them beyond instruments of sport. It is a non-hierarchal composite of three individual publications created inthe process of digitally scanning… Continue reading Archiving Two Cricket Bats

This little book has been transformative over the course of this term. It contains a series of texts on materiality, assemblage, family structures, relationships, ownership and more, with an overarching look at rethinking human relationships themselves, but also those with materials and objects. It has introduced me to a new way of looking at things,… Continue reading The Material Kinship Reader

A-Z: A Bouquet From a Distance explores how reductive image-making can be used to convey what Walter Benjamin describes as the ‘aura’ of an object, rather than the object itself. Through a series of simple pastel drawings, translating a still life of a bouquet onto a series of grids that sequentially increase in density (and… Continue reading A—Z: A Bouquet from a Distance

In the first term, I mapped a prayer room, using the organisation of the prayer rugs to array a grid onto the plan of the room and then translating the colours and materials of the room’s surfaces into a series of pixel-like pastel drawings. This snippet was what I chose to explore for the first… Continue reading Positions Through Iterating — 100 Pastel Drawings

How can the performance of archiving* build or express kinship with objects? *writing, inscribing, scanning, restoring, remembering, imitating… Submission for Unit 2 midpoint assessment