Aziz Hazara | Bow Echo Trailer | 22nd Biennale of Sydney | NIRIN

The 22nd Biennale of Sydney presents the world premiere of Aziz Hazara’s video works Bow Echo here at the MCA, and Monument at Campbelltown Arts Centre, both made in collaboration with community and friends in his hometown in Afghanistan, on the high hills of Kabul Province. In Bow Echo, five boys climb and try to stay perched atop a large rock, battered by high winds. Their aim is to play a plastic children’s bugle to announce the urgency of their community’s plight against repression, which includes the murder of children and others. The eerie sounds express a connection with the landscape, in which many traumatic events have taken place. As other cities around the world sound their recognition of death with bugles of shiny metal, like at Anzac Day in Australia, these children’s plastic bugles are hardly heard above the howling winds.