Workshops over two days with students from @issp_jauniesi .
We aimed to explore beyond vertical structures and used bodily interventions, photography and collage as mediums to playfully challenge established social behaviour and inhibitions. The result became a zine consisting of the students and my own photos and collages, appropriated news and archival images and text excerpts from my google research folder. The project "Renegades" includes the zine and a flashmob performance at Uzvaras park in Riga where a soviet monument recently was demolished.
As part of artist residency at @issp_latvia in January
Supported by Nordic Culture Point Grant, Mobility funding
Haus Der Statistik, Berlin. 14 - 29 May, 2021
Borrowing the names of these two trees from the Indian Subcontinent, this multi-disciplinary exhibition explored the work of contemporary Pakistani artists in the context of a globalized art scene. Artists: Waseem Ahmed, Amber Arifeen, Ahmed Baloch, Omar Gilani, Sara Farid, Bibi Hajra, Isma Gul Hasan, Daniel Hopp & YAYACLA, Imran Hunzai, Natasha Jozi, Shireen Ikramullah Khan, Akeli Larkian Group, Amna Mawaz-Khan, Franka Marlene Foth w/FMKF, Shehzil Malik, Arafat Mazhar, Mahera Omar, Abdullah Qureshi, Jawad Sharif & Haroon Riaz, Abi Tariq.
Above; artwork by Bibi Hajra
Panel discussion: Politics of Artistic Identity
with Amber Arifeen, H.E. Dr. Mohammad Faisal, Ambassador of Pakistan, Sara Farid, Philipp Zehmisch, Lorenz Strittmatter, moderated by Zara Sajid.)
Curators; Benjamin Merten, Amna Mawaz Khan and Zara Sajid, Emma Bäcklund
Installation view "Chapter Two"
Chapter Two was organised by Chapters including myself and Trine Stephensen in collaboration with Alma Zevi gallery. Exhibited at Alma Zevi in London and online.
Eva Stenram and Tom Lovelace installation on view.
SIRI + McKenzie Wark
I invited the voice actress Susan Bennett (original voice of SIRI) in conversation with writer McKenzie Wark discussing topics of gender, immortality and the human need to ask questions. Moderated by Victoria Camblin. Organised as part of Artists & Allies Berlin, Germany. (Online) (2020)
Installation view "Chapter One"
Chapter One was organised by Chapters including myself and Trine Stephensen in collaboration with Artists & Allies Berlin. Exhibited at Sankt Studio, Berlin, Germany (2020) with a live online tour.
On view is Sam William's work Salvage Rhythms.
The Possibilities of the Photographic Body
Workshop in collaboration with Tom Lovelace at The Photographers Gallery, London, UK. (2019)
Walls Have Tongues
Chisenhale Art Place as part of Studio4 Summer Residencies (2018), London, UK.
Workshops and improvised participatory performance, 35 clay tongues attached on wall, free hanging tongue in textile hanging from ceiling.
Walls Have Tongues was a series of workshops for both adults and children from local elementary schools of East London. I wanted to explore the slippages between language and movement, choreography and improvisation.
The workshop/performances involved various collaborative exercises when for instance isolated words could initiate longer improvised movements. We worked with automatic writing and embodiment of language, for instance the contrasting words “massive”
and “invisible”.
Walls Have Tongues
Workshop with children from East London elementary schools at
Chisenhale Art Place as part of Studio4 Summer Residencies (2018), London, UK.
Performance by Juan Cruz in collaboration with students from Royal College of Art. (2016)
As part of
Paper | Publication | Performance, exhibition curated with Jonathan Miles, Lychee One, London, UK.
Aishan Yu, Others 21, 2014
As part of Paper | Publication | Performance, exhibition curated with Jonathan Miles, Lychee One, London, UK.
