Talks
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Society of Architectural Historians 76th Annual International Conference
Online / Montreal, 20-22.09.23.
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.
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.
Online, 01-03.12.22.
ISEA2022 - 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art Barcelona, 10-16.06.22.
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.
University of Westminster, London, School of Architecture + Cities, 20-21.06.19.
Closeup Film Centre, Shoreditch, London, 05.10.18.
Fourteenth International Conference: The Arts in Society
Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, 19-21.06.19.
Sensing Site / Approaching Estate: Methodologies for Site and Place
Furtherfield Commons, Finsbury Park, London, 12.04.19.