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Combining apparatus of the screen, tools of leisure, and context of gentrification in South Asia, the project seeks for viewers to loiter in the kitsch imaginary of corporate culture and critical analysis within a digitally revitalized Trans-Pakistan Adventure Services. The project repurposes the artist's uncle's defunct Pakistani tourism company, Trans-Pakistan Adventure Services, to explore how built environment can be reimagined as a speculative, almost poetic space for othering prevailing logics around race, gender, sexuality, and capital. This promotional video of a virtual tourism experience offered by Trans-Pakistan; it explores the ideas and implications of simulacra, “the copy” as a virtual environment and Web VR artwork. This project explores a concept called “Pirate Modernity” by Indian Media Theorist, Ravi Sundaram; the dissemination of the media culture through the copy as a representation of subaltern population in the city.