Waseem Ahmad Siddiqui

Apaçık Radyo

Waseem Ahmad Siddiqui is Pakistan-born, lives in Istanbul, and is a radio anchor and writer. He mainly focuses on autobiographical methodologies following spatial storytelling / translocation/ boundary/ home that later yearn for the possible collectivity. After living half of his life away from home, he has only recently begun to realize that the very idea of being “at home” is actually the precise idea of “making home.” It is the precise realization, he believes, or perhaps an act, that encompasses the formation of relationships through coming together, the coexistence of learning together to form the relationship of friendship. He holds these differences as a precious form of collectivity. His work attempts to look for the possibility of writing an autobiography and asks whether or if this possibility —the possibility of mediation in his distorted memory, or, perhaps, more importantly, the specific disjunctions between the mediation of what he remembers and what he doesn’t remember in terms of lived experience— can ever be justified by rational frameworks.

Publications

(2024). Time Comes to a Stand “Where” it Ceases to Be, Hollow and Broken: State of the World, Venice Biennale, edited by Melis Cankara, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) in its Turkish, and by İKSV in collaboration with Mousse Publishing in its English edition. ISBN: 978-88-6749-626-6.
(2019) Orientalism (Post-Colonial Modernity in South Asia), published by Aura Istanbul (Architecture Urbanism Research Association).