Silent Crisis, 25 minute Multimedia Performance
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Faluda Islam in Silent Crisis 25 minute performance at the Asian Art Museum as part of APAture: Here organised by the Kearney Street Workshop. October 2016, photo by Hui Meng Wang
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Faluda Islam in Silent Crisis at The Queen’s Museum for Fatal Love, Where Are We Now? a symposium curated by Jaishri Abhichandani. 25 minute performance.
Silent Crisis was Faluda Islam’s premier performance, when she was not quite yet a zombie (see the Alif Series). She was a channel for Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to express the tremendous conflicts associated with living life as a queer Muslim in the West. Caught between a mainstream LGBTQ community with its own prejudices against Muslims and religion in general and heterosexual Muslims who see us as rejecting and living outside of faith and culture. Furthermore, the performance ties these ideas to larger historical issues, such as the partition of India and British colonial rule in South Asia.