CONFERENCE

Site-integrity: repositioning representation from the retrospective/projective to the spatial and experiential.
Alliances and Commonalities 2024, Artistic Research Conference, 17–19.10.24 Stockholm University of the Arts. 


This conference will showcase ‘site-integrity’ and explore how technical devices enable conversations with material entities, places, and relevant forms of inquiry.


CONFERENCE

Virtual Assembly: the transformative power of artistic collaboration and experiential archiving.
ISEA 2024 Every When, 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art in Meanjin (Brisbane) Online 21-29.06.24.

This conference will present findings from Virtual Assembly and explore how co-created digital modeling can be used to ‘perform’ and archive lived practices. 


SYMPOSIUM

(In)visible practices: performing migrant and minority places of worship.
International Symposium: The lost-and-found: revising art stories in search of potential changes. Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, 06–07.06.24


This conference specifically address the lost and found materialities and affects that enable creation of safe, caring, attentive and hospitable communities, relations and communications. 


PANEL DISCUSSION


Shifting boundaries between disciplines, and reconfiguring the agency of art in a societal context.
SAR International Forum on Artistic Research 2024, Online / Tilburg 09.04.24


This symposium explored and evaluated how these methods play a role in producing knowledge between disciplines.


PANEL DISCUSSION


World in Westminster HOMELandS Dialogue. University of Westminster, London 01.03.24


Countering exclusionary narratives against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the UK. In an ever ‘globalising’ world perpetuated by increased mobility, this event offered an insight into building societies which support the well-being of all members. 


ARTIST TALK

Public and Community Engagement Celebration. Ambika P3 Gallery, London 22.11.23


The Assembly Project, a 5-year collaboration with the Muslim Association of Nigeria UK (MANUK) was showcased at The University of Westminster’s Public and Community Engagement Celebration event.


CONFERENCE

Making Sacred Spaces in the Diaspora: Re-purposed Architecture.
Society of Architectural Historians 76th Annual International Conference
Online / Montreal  20-22.09.23 



ARTIST TALK


Virtual Assembly Exhibition and Artist talk / panel discussion (chaired by Shahed Saleem)at Ambika P3 Gallery, London, 21.03.2023


As part of the ongoing collaboration with MANUK, the exhibition showcased a series of large scale projections offering an immersive and interactive experience of architectural models depicting the former Old Kent Road Mosque in Southwark.



PANEL DISCUSSION


Connected Creativity: A Transatlantic Exhibition of Practice-Based Research
Ambika P3 Gallery, London (uk) 28-30.03.23


Connected Creativity marked the beginning of a collaboration between creative practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic. The works exemplified the principles of practice-based research that are collaborative, technologically experimental, socially engaged, and innovative.


CONFERENCE

Representing Pasts - Visionin Futures - AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society)
Online 01-03.12.22



CONFERENCE

Transforming Practices: a practice-based research approach to teaching emerging media at undergraduate level.
ISEA2022 - 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art Barcelona 10-16.06.22




ARTIST TALK

Artist talk and panel discussion: Faith on Film: Assembly70 Cowcross Street, London 14.10.21

Assembly was shortlisted for the A+C Award for art in a religious context in 2019 and this talks gives a rare insight into the creative potential of film as a tool for examining and reflecting on faith.



CONFERENCE

Spiritual, Sacred, Secular: the architecture of faith in modern Britain
University of Westminster, London 20-21.06.19. School of Architecture + Cities





ARTIST TALK

Assembly: Site Performance at Brick Lane Mosque
Closeup Film Centre, Shoreditch, London 05.10.18





PANEL DISCUSSION


“O you who believe” Old Kent Road Mosque online platform
Online 20.10.21



CONFERENCE


Fourteenth International Conference: The Arts in Society
Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon 19-21.06.19



ARTIST TALK


Sensing Site / Approaching Estate: Methodologies for Site and Place
Furtherfield Commons, Finsbury Park, London 12.04.19