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Oceanic Feelings is an audio research project by Zahra Malkani, moving through the aquatic landscapes of coastal Sindh and Balochistan where the sonic and the sacred come together at sea. The sounds encountered here emerge from spaces with long, rich histories of oceanic exchange and connections - spaces now devastated by development, militarism and the Pakistani state's infrastructural nationalism. The term Oceanic Feelings refers to the affective experience of religious, spiritual rapture - a moment of ego-death, the dissolution of one’s own boundaries into an aquatic, divine, infinite unity.
From field recordings at protests and occult rituals by the beach, to folklore and anti-colonial epics, these sounds threaten and entice with those same ecstatic border-crossings and boundary-breakings: sacred ruptures. Each sound is a kind of a Shaligram, a bridge between realms, collapsing time and space in the co-presence of life and death.
Photos by: @horse.fork [2] and Zahra Malkani [6]