GODAM / PARTNERSHIP PROPOSAL
Baqiyat-e Masraf
Remnants of Consumption
Lahore Community Radio presents
GODAM brings a site-specific audiovisual installation, four electronic music performances and a public exhibition into a former aviation hangar in Lahore.
Discarded packaging and air-filled forms make a temporary architecture. Programmed light changes how that architecture is experienced across two days.
Everyday packaging carries the project into Lahore’s streets and markets.
02 / IN THE HANGARDiscarded materials become an enclosure shaped by air, shadows and movement.
03 / IN SOUNDFour live sets, an ambient exhibition and an unannounced recording.
Curatorial statement
Remnants of Consumption
GODAM is a site-specific audiovisual installation and live music experience presented by Lahore Community Radio.
Situated within a former aviation hangar in Lahore, the project explores the presence of plastic in the city's everyday life, from its most ordinary transactions to its increasingly contested place in the urban environment.
Through discarded packaging, woven industrial sacks, translucent surfaces, air-filled structures, light, and movement, GODAM transforms familiar materials into a temporary architecture.
Activated by four live electronic music performances, the installation becomes a shared environment in which audiences encounter these materials at an unfamiliar scale.
Extending beyond the venue, a series of interventions across Lahore brings the project into the streets, markets, and commercial spaces where these materials circulate.
GODAM is an experiment in material, sound, public space, and collective experience, asking what happens when the objects we use, discard, and overlook become the very structures we inhabit.
گودام لاہور کمیونٹی ریڈیو کی پیشکش ہے، ایک مقام سے مخصوص سمعی و بصری تنصیب اور براہِ راست موسیقی کا تجربہ۔
لاہور کے ایک سابق ہوابازی ہینگر میں قائم یہ منصوبہ شہر کی روزمرہ زندگی میں پلاسٹک کی موجودگی کا جائزہ لیتا ہے، معمول کی خرید و فروخت سے لے کر شہری ماحول میں اس کے بڑھتے ہوئے متنازع کردار تک۔
استعمال کے بعد پھینکی گئی پیکجنگ، بُنی ہوئی صنعتی بوریوں، نیم شفاف سطحوں، ہوا بھری ساختوں، روشنی اور حرکت سے گودام مانوس مواد کو ایک عارضی معماری میں بدل دیتا ہے۔
براہِ راست الیکٹرانک موسیقی کی چار پیشکشیں اس تنصیب کو ایک مشترکہ ماحول بناتی ہیں، جہاں حاضرین اس مانوس مواد سے ایک غیر مانوس پیمانے پر روبرو ہوتے ہیں۔
یہ منصوبہ ہینگر سے باہر بھی پھیلتا ہے۔ لاہور بھر میں سلسلہ وار مداخلتیں اسے ان گلیوں، بازاروں اور تجارتی جگہوں تک لے جاتی ہیں جہاں یہ مواد گردش میں رہتا ہے۔
گودام مواد، آواز، عوامی جگہ اور اجتماعی تجربے کا ایک تجربہ ہے۔ یہ سوال اٹھاتا ہے کہ جب وہ اشیا، جنہیں ہم استعمال کرتے، پھینک دیتے اور نظر انداز کرتے ہیں، انہی ساختوں میں بدل جائیں جن کے اندر ہم رہتے ہیں، تو کیا ہوتا ہے؟
Site and aviation context
GODAM takes place in the former Lahore Flying Club hangar at the CBD Punjab site on the grounds of the former Walton Airport.
The hangar’s long roof spans and open floor give the installation room to hang translucent walls and shape how visitors move through the space.
CBD Punjab location ↗
Drawn from the production sketches
Threads from a mechanical sculpture carry motion into the inflatables along the translucent walls. Industrial fans supply airflow, and light from the corners and perimeter layers shadows across the film.
Air, film and repetition
Discarded and rejected materials are the starting point. The production plan includes responsible sourcing and planning for material recovery after the exhibition.
01 / IN THE CITY
LCR is planning around ten small interventions across Lahore, working with everyday packaging where it already circulates. GODAM, LCR and artist identities are screen-printed onto recovered or existing materials, from samosa chutney bags to woven flour sacks and carrier bags.
The street work gives people a way to encounter GODAM before entering the hangar. Documentation connects these ordinary transactions to the installation and the music programme.
PRE-SHOW SERIES / PROPOSED EDITORIAL SLATE
Ten short pieces follow plastic through daily use in Lahore. Each cut focuses on a distinct action, from filling and tying to printing and carrying. Recovered and existing stock is the starting point.
A tight preparation cut follows a vendor filling a printed shopper and passing it across the counter.
A short exchange follows the pouch from filling and tying to the handover.
A pour and a knot show how a lightweight bag becomes a vessel.
An overhead study follows the scoop, fill and fold of a dairy-shop bag.
A handover cut follows warm bread from the counter into the bag carried home.
A follow shot traces the carrier bag from checkout into the street.
A wider cut follows the weight, weave and movement of a screen-printed sack in transit.
A material study follows bags and sacks as they are collected, sorted and prepared.
Close-ups follow the screen-printing of GODAM, LCR and artist identities onto the recovered materials.
A short montage links the market, the moving bags and the installation build.
One installation, two ways to encounter it
A planned audience of 250–300 experiences the installation through four electronic sets. Programmed ambient light shifts with the music, catching the moving plastic and layering shadows.
Opens the live programme.
Carries the programme into the next set.
An extended set ahead of the headliner.
Closes the Saturday programme.
The hangar opens to the public for six hours. Visitors move through the work at their own pace, with ambient music and the shifting surfaces of the installation.
A quieter encounter with the materials, shadows and kinetic sculpture.
A set recorded inside the installation for the LCR archive.
A brief dance piece that uses translucent plastic to shape how bodies, gestures and shadows are seen.
Saturday, 5 December
Four artists bring their own approach to the hangar. The music and lighting shape how the audience moves through and experiences the installation.
01 / OPENING SET · 60 MIN
DJ & curator
JJ is a founding member and lead curator of Dosti, the Lahore cultural collective behind Dosti Mubarak and Dosti × Ahadadream. He has shaped the collective’s music programming and opens GODAM’s Saturday session.
02 / SECOND SET · 60 MIN
DJ & creative artist
Zoya’s selections move through jungle, bass and UK garage. Her sets bring a creative, rhythm-led approach to club music, and she appeared on the Dosti × Ahadadream lineup in Lahore.
03 / EXTENDED SET · 90 MIN
DJ & producer
Lahore-based DJ and producer MALIK. co-founded Miracle Mangal. His recent six-track EP IRIDESCENCE, released via Silent Roar, moves between bass, jungle, UK garage and hardgroove. He has performed for Boiler Room Pakistan and played Dosti × Ahadadream in Lahore.
04 / HEADLINER · 90 MIN
DJ & founder of We Going Sound
Raised in Bari and shaped by Milan’s underground, SGAMO mixes bass music, baile funk and club sounds from across the world. His platform wegoing.sound has brought Rinse FM and Keep Hush programmes to audiences in Italy and Asia.
Cumulative organic clip views reported by the artist’s agency. Kompass Music Group
Independent sound and culture from Lahore
Lahore Community Radio is an independent, community-led platform for music, sound and audiovisual culture in Lahore.
LCR brings artists and audiences together through live gatherings, site-specific recordings and collaborative projects. The work moves between electronic music, classical traditions and contemporary experimentation. Recording and documentation give each programme a life beyond the room, building an archive of artists, instruments and the sounds of the city.
Curated performances and listening experiences that bring different musical practices into the same space.
Site-specific sets, artist recordings and audiovisual documentation rooted in Lahore.
Shared programmes with artists, independent collectives and cultural spaces.
SELECTED PROJECTS
An early live programme curated by Lahore Community Radio.
LCR PROJECTAn LCR recording series rooted in Lahore’s Anarkali neighbourhood. Watch Asad Khan’s set on YouTube.
LCR PROJECTA Dosti show with Lahore Community Radio as community partner.
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPGODAM’s community partner
Dosti is a Lahore cultural collective that curates independent electronic music gatherings. It joins GODAM as community partner, continuing its relationship with Lahore Community Radio through live programming.
A Dosti gathering at Iqbal Haveli on 3 January 2026, with Lahore Community Radio as community partner. Event listing.
A collaborative Lahore show in September 2026. Dosti on Instagram · Lahore show listing .
How audiences encounter GODAM
Saturday brings together a curated circle from Lahore’s music, art and design scenes. Sunday opens the hangar to the public. The campaign begins in the streets and continues online through artists, guests and partners.
A live audience drawn from Lahore’s music, art, design and creative communities, with a focused guest list alongside general admission.
LCR and Dosti bring together a closely connected circle of creators, artists and cultural figures. Many are influential within their own fields. At previous Dosti gatherings, some guests had individual audiences in the millions, giving the programme a route into engaged communities beyond the venue.
Projected visitors across six hours of open access.
Exhibition footfall tracked separately from Saturday attendance.
LCR’s combined campaign projection across coverage of the street interventions, artist and guest networks, partner channels and exhibition documentation.
Report platform figures after the event. This projection represents potential exposure across channels.
Proposed invitation package
A physical invitation for selected guests, press and partners. A bag made from woven bori carries a cassette of recordings from the Lahore Community Radio archive and a portable player to listen to it.
PROPOSED CONTENTS / GODAM
A woven-sack bag designed to carry by hand as a tote or wear on one shoulder.
A curated selection from earlier LCR sets, with a printed tracklist and recording credits.
A portable cassette player paired with the tape for the selected invite edition.
A printed invitation with programme details and a curatorial insert. Translucent wrapping and inserts carry the installation’s material language into the package.
Images are material and construction references. Edition size, tracklist, player sourcing and partner allocations will be agreed during production.
An audiovisual record of GODAM
The production follows the project from its first street encounters to the final day of the exhibition, creating an archive of the work and how it was made.
Document vendor encounters, sorting and screen-printing, fabrication, inflation and lighting tests, and the hangar build. Release the ten street pieces as the public lead-in.
View the street series ↗Saturday coverage follows the four live sets, audience and installation cues. Sunday coverage follows the open exhibition, moving light and materials, the unannounced set recording and movement performance.
Plan an afterfilm, a short process documentary, selected set recordings, stills and social cuts. The LCR archive retains the longer record. Partner recap materials and credits follow the agreed scope.
Support the installation and its public programme
Partner funding supports fabrication, technical production, artist delivery, the public exhibition and project documentation.
01 / PRIMARY PARTNER · BOTH DAYS
Lead presenting partnership for the full GODAM programme, 5–6 December.
02 / SUPPORTING PARTNER · ONE DAY
Supporting partnership for one agreed programme day, either the live activation or the public exhibition.
Agreed credits across selected campaign assets and coverage.
GUEST EXPERIENCEInvitation and kitSelected guest allocations and agreed acknowledgement.
POST-SHOWFilm and reportingAfterfilm, documentary credits and a recap of delivered placements and performance.
LCR will agree exact placements, guest allocations and content deliverables with each partner. Post-event reporting covers attendance by programme day, published content performance and delivered partner placements, using available data.
