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Panel Discussion

Moving Pictures: faith, migration and placemaking
London Migration Film Festival, The Zoroastrian Centre, 26.11.2024.

The expanded film event included talks and a panel discussion around 'faith, migration and placemaking' with guest speakers Prof Cangbai Wang and artist-curator Dima Karout, chaired by researcher Özlem Köksal. It was supported by HOMELandS (Hub on Migration, Exile, Languages and Spaces), University of Westminster.

Conference

Site-integrity: between the lived experience and representation of place.
Alliances and Commonalities 2024, Artistic Research Conference, Stockholm University of the Arts, 17–19.10.24.

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

Countering exclusionary narratives against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the UK.
World in Westminster HOMELandS Dialogue. University of Westminster, London 01.03.24.

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, 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: Assembly.
70 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, School of Architecture + Cities, 20-21.06.19.

Artist Talk

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

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.