CRITICAL WRITING AND CURATION
UPCOMING:
'Parallels between the US Black Liberation movement and Palestinian Anti-Occupation movements' for Post-Mortem Journal
'The Compartmentalisation of Care' for Birdsong from Inobservable Worlds, a project by Dolly Sen
2022
'The sharp sensation of eucalyptus climbs inside my lungs'
A response to 'Unlimited Showcases: Ancestry, Diaspora & Storytelling'
2021
Psychic Refuge Micro-commissions (Online) 09-12.2021 A film curated by Habibi Collective, and works made by Alaa Abu Asad, Inas Halabi and Radio Alhara.
Psychic Refuge
Psychic Refuge is an ongoing R&D; project exploring mental health, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or trauma and its treatment in Palestine (OPT).
Accessible web design by Studio Hyte with pages in English and Arabic. Translation by artist Alaa Abu Asad.
Myth and Microgravity: Video-essay and discussion moderated by Andara Shastika.
Kassel Documentary Film Festival 17.11.2021
'Chronica (body of evidence): Biomedical technologies and abstractions of experience' Video-essay and discussion moderated by Erkan Affan.
Werkleitz Festival 2021 'move to...' Bodydatasphere 2.-4.07.2021
Inter/sections 2021: Bridging Distance
Bodies/Technologies panel discussion, Media and Arts Technology CDT, Queen Mary University of London
25.03.2021
'Choose Your Access Settings' Talk with Arjun Harrison-Mann (Studio Hyte) about accessible web design in relation to the online project Psychic Refuge 23.03.2021
2020
'CHRONICA: PERFORMANCE, DISABILITY AND THE COVID-19 CRISIS' Text for Gelatina Festival, La Casa Encendida 13.05-02.06.2020
COVID-19 and healthcare inequalities: It shouldn't take a pandemic to listen to marginalised voices
Unlimited 12.05.2020
Chronic Dissonance: Slowing Up and Speeding Down
Errant Journal 2020. Issue 1: When Are We?
2018
'Solar Plexus: Anxiety, Late-capitalism and Global Mental Health' Written for the Solar Plexus Pressure Belt project conceived by artist Saemundur Thor Helgason with Félag Borgara/Fellowship of Citizens, an interest group founded in October 2017 with the aim of lobbying for Basic Income.
Chronica, at Jerwood Space, London 13.09.2018
A screening of moving-image works exploring chronic illness, including: Nicola Woodham, Leah Clements, Blue Maignien (Hortense) in collaboration with Eye Measure, and Terribilis and Wure. This was part of a programme including a new live performance by the artist as part of the Jerwood Staging Series curated by Lauren Houlton.
2017
Ideology Meets Implementation, W139, Amsterdam 28.10.17
Moving-image works made by and exploring experiences of LGBTQI+ people and communities in South-West Asia and North Africa (SWANA), dealing with identity, cultural attitudes, social inequalities and political activism.
Desire and Simulacra: screening of works by artists from the Middle East and North Africa, RCA, London, 17.10.17
Cesura//Acceso Issue 2: Corrupting Desires!
'Between Ethics and Erotica: De-constructing Symbols of Aggressive Masculinity in Queer BDSM and Music Subcultures'. Launch event at Cafe Oto, London 08.03.17
A screening of artist’s moving-image from the Middle East and North Africa, at BAK, Utrecht as part of the Southern Summer School 26.02.17.
The selected films explored activist, feminist, queer and diaspora narratives through works by Lamia Joreige, Mosireen Collective, Sarah Abu Abdullah, Roy Dib and Inas Halabi.
2016
On and Off Our Backs for X-TRA Magazine (Fall 2016, Volume 19 No. 2)
Reviews for AQNB:
Psychiatry and the State in the work of Pil and Galia Kollectiv and Josh Bitelli, 15 Sept
An interview with Martine Syms, 10 May
I Lost Track of the Swarm, 28 April
Second Sex War, 4 April
Circuits in the Flesh, 8 March
Perspectives on the construction of the (Australian) West with and through the Middle East
Runway Issue 31
Inner Security A video-essay made for a panel discussion as part of 'Anxious to Secure' at Transmediale, HKW Berlin 5 Feb
2015
Psychic Refuge: Transcultural Psychiatry in the UK and the Middle East, Issues Arising from the 2015 Refugee Crisis
The New Inquiry, 2 Nov
2014
Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism
Justus-Liebig, Giessen
13-15 Nov
Beirut: Bodies in Public
Performing Philosophy, American University of Beirut
9-11 October
Certain Behaviours short text for poster to accompany performance We Play Tonight No More Sorrow by Justyna Scheuring at Trinity Centre, Bristol
18 September
Collapse: Contemporary Artists’ Works Exploring Global Divisions of Labour
Panel II: Aesthetics of Urgency: Between Figure and Abstraction
Between Urgency and Abstraction, Conference at Goldsmiths University, 26 June
'No Homo': Brooke Candy and the New Wave of Queer Hip-Hop
Queer Feminine Affinities
Ruinscapes and the Nuclear Uncanny in Contemporary Artists' Moving-Image and Sound Works
Talk as part of 'Archives for the Future' conference organised by Mnemoscape at University of Westminster, 29 March
SALT. :Feminism and Contemporary Art Issue 5: Anti-work
(anti)Work Against Unhappiness
2013
Transnationalism, Diaspora and Digital Mediation for Interartive 'Art+Mobility' Issue September 2013
'We Were Trying to Make Sense...' : Exploring Artist and Non-Artist Collaborations
Publication co-edited with Magda Fabianczyk. Launched at 1Shantiroad, Bangalore, 5 January 2013
and X Marks the Bökship, London, 30 May 2013
(Available at: South London Gallery, X Marks the Bökship, ArtWords Bookshop, Ti Pi Tin, Banner Repeater and online at AND Publishing)
2012
brut Artist Talk at Urban Transcripts 2012 UCL, London 9 December 2012
Permission, piracy and creative intervention: Gordon Matta-Clark, GMC Cut I and II and The Piracy Project
Artist Workshop at Printed Matter, 18 September 2012
More Real than Reality: Film and Video Technology in Representing the 'Real'.
Short Talk for 'Fragile Realities: Intersecting Interpretations of the Real' SELCS Conference, UCL. 6 July 2012
Visual Technologies, Artistic Subversion and the Contemporary Urban.
Short Talk, Panel 1c:Urban Technologies at One Day in the City Conference, UCL. 15 June 2012
Sublimation: The Development of the Contemporary Sublime
Written for Sublimation: An Exercise in the Immersive at Oboro Montreal, March 2012.
Fractured Living II: Architectural Experience and Expanded Photography
Jotta Published: Critical Dialogue. April 2012
Sound by Caleb Kelly. Review for a-n interface. February 2012
Fractured Living: Looking at the work of Neil Ayling and Frauke Dannert a-n Interface. November 2011
Art and Alternative Urbanism: Unofficial Public Space Interventions part of
Alternative Urbanisms- UGRG Conference 11-12 November 2010
Art as Activism: Should Art be Separated from Activism? Silent City, November 2010
Dubai Downtown: Alternative Perspectives Soapbox talk, 22 October
This Is Not A Gateway Festival 2010 22-24 October
Photography: Mapping the Civic Space
Co-curator, Art & Architecture Lecture Series Spring 2010 Speakers: Mark Pimlott, Diego Ferrari, Bridget Smith, chaired by Dr Alison Rooke.
The Photographer's Gallery, London. 26 April 2010
The Ethics of Social Realist Film and Photography
Soapbox talk, 25 October.
This Is Not A Gateway Festival 2009 23-25 October
'Parallels between the US Black Liberation movement and Palestinian Anti-Occupation movements' for Post-Mortem Journal
'The Compartmentalisation of Care' for Birdsong from Inobservable Worlds, a project by Dolly Sen
2022
'The sharp sensation of eucalyptus climbs inside my lungs'
A response to 'Unlimited Showcases: Ancestry, Diaspora & Storytelling'
2021
Psychic Refuge Micro-commissions (Online) 09-12.2021 A film curated by Habibi Collective, and works made by Alaa Abu Asad, Inas Halabi and Radio Alhara.
Psychic Refuge
Psychic Refuge is an ongoing R&D; project exploring mental health, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or trauma and its treatment in Palestine (OPT).
Accessible web design by Studio Hyte with pages in English and Arabic. Translation by artist Alaa Abu Asad.
Myth and Microgravity: Video-essay and discussion moderated by Andara Shastika.
Kassel Documentary Film Festival 17.11.2021
'Chronica (body of evidence): Biomedical technologies and abstractions of experience' Video-essay and discussion moderated by Erkan Affan.
Werkleitz Festival 2021 'move to...' Bodydatasphere 2.-4.07.2021
Inter/sections 2021: Bridging Distance
Bodies/Technologies panel discussion, Media and Arts Technology CDT, Queen Mary University of London
25.03.2021
'Choose Your Access Settings' Talk with Arjun Harrison-Mann (Studio Hyte) about accessible web design in relation to the online project Psychic Refuge 23.03.2021
2020
'CHRONICA: PERFORMANCE, DISABILITY AND THE COVID-19 CRISIS' Text for Gelatina Festival, La Casa Encendida 13.05-02.06.2020
COVID-19 and healthcare inequalities: It shouldn't take a pandemic to listen to marginalised voices
Unlimited 12.05.2020
Chronic Dissonance: Slowing Up and Speeding Down
Errant Journal 2020. Issue 1: When Are We?
2018
'Solar Plexus: Anxiety, Late-capitalism and Global Mental Health' Written for the Solar Plexus Pressure Belt project conceived by artist Saemundur Thor Helgason with Félag Borgara/Fellowship of Citizens, an interest group founded in October 2017 with the aim of lobbying for Basic Income.
Chronica, at Jerwood Space, London 13.09.2018
A screening of moving-image works exploring chronic illness, including: Nicola Woodham, Leah Clements, Blue Maignien (Hortense) in collaboration with Eye Measure, and Terribilis and Wure. This was part of a programme including a new live performance by the artist as part of the Jerwood Staging Series curated by Lauren Houlton.
2017
Ideology Meets Implementation, W139, Amsterdam 28.10.17
Moving-image works made by and exploring experiences of LGBTQI+ people and communities in South-West Asia and North Africa (SWANA), dealing with identity, cultural attitudes, social inequalities and political activism.
Desire and Simulacra: screening of works by artists from the Middle East and North Africa, RCA, London, 17.10.17
Cesura//Acceso Issue 2: Corrupting Desires!
'Between Ethics and Erotica: De-constructing Symbols of Aggressive Masculinity in Queer BDSM and Music Subcultures'. Launch event at Cafe Oto, London 08.03.17
A screening of artist’s moving-image from the Middle East and North Africa, at BAK, Utrecht as part of the Southern Summer School 26.02.17.
The selected films explored activist, feminist, queer and diaspora narratives through works by Lamia Joreige, Mosireen Collective, Sarah Abu Abdullah, Roy Dib and Inas Halabi.
2016
On and Off Our Backs for X-TRA Magazine (Fall 2016, Volume 19 No. 2)
Reviews for AQNB:
Psychiatry and the State in the work of Pil and Galia Kollectiv and Josh Bitelli, 15 Sept
An interview with Martine Syms, 10 May
I Lost Track of the Swarm, 28 April
Second Sex War, 4 April
Circuits in the Flesh, 8 March
Perspectives on the construction of the (Australian) West with and through the Middle East
Runway Issue 31
Inner Security A video-essay made for a panel discussion as part of 'Anxious to Secure' at Transmediale, HKW Berlin 5 Feb
2015
Psychic Refuge: Transcultural Psychiatry in the UK and the Middle East, Issues Arising from the 2015 Refugee Crisis
The New Inquiry, 2 Nov
2014
Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism
Justus-Liebig, Giessen
13-15 Nov
Beirut: Bodies in Public
Performing Philosophy, American University of Beirut
9-11 October
Certain Behaviours short text for poster to accompany performance We Play Tonight No More Sorrow by Justyna Scheuring at Trinity Centre, Bristol
18 September
Collapse: Contemporary Artists’ Works Exploring Global Divisions of Labour
Panel II: Aesthetics of Urgency: Between Figure and Abstraction
Between Urgency and Abstraction, Conference at Goldsmiths University, 26 June
'No Homo': Brooke Candy and the New Wave of Queer Hip-Hop
Queer Feminine Affinities
Ruinscapes and the Nuclear Uncanny in Contemporary Artists' Moving-Image and Sound Works
Talk as part of 'Archives for the Future' conference organised by Mnemoscape at University of Westminster, 29 March
SALT. :Feminism and Contemporary Art Issue 5: Anti-work
(anti)Work Against Unhappiness
2013
Transnationalism, Diaspora and Digital Mediation for Interartive 'Art+Mobility' Issue September 2013
'We Were Trying to Make Sense...' : Exploring Artist and Non-Artist Collaborations
Publication co-edited with Magda Fabianczyk. Launched at 1Shantiroad, Bangalore, 5 January 2013
and X Marks the Bökship, London, 30 May 2013
(Available at: South London Gallery, X Marks the Bökship, ArtWords Bookshop, Ti Pi Tin, Banner Repeater and online at AND Publishing)
2012
brut Artist Talk at Urban Transcripts 2012 UCL, London 9 December 2012
Permission, piracy and creative intervention: Gordon Matta-Clark, GMC Cut I and II and The Piracy Project
Artist Workshop at Printed Matter, 18 September 2012
More Real than Reality: Film and Video Technology in Representing the 'Real'.
Short Talk for 'Fragile Realities: Intersecting Interpretations of the Real' SELCS Conference, UCL. 6 July 2012
Visual Technologies, Artistic Subversion and the Contemporary Urban.
Short Talk, Panel 1c:Urban Technologies at One Day in the City Conference, UCL. 15 June 2012
Sublimation: The Development of the Contemporary Sublime
Written for Sublimation: An Exercise in the Immersive at Oboro Montreal, March 2012.
Fractured Living II: Architectural Experience and Expanded Photography
Jotta Published: Critical Dialogue. April 2012
Sound by Caleb Kelly. Review for a-n interface. February 2012
Fractured Living: Looking at the work of Neil Ayling and Frauke Dannert a-n Interface. November 2011
Art and Alternative Urbanism: Unofficial Public Space Interventions part of
Alternative Urbanisms- UGRG Conference 11-12 November 2010
Art as Activism: Should Art be Separated from Activism? Silent City, November 2010
Dubai Downtown: Alternative Perspectives Soapbox talk, 22 October
This Is Not A Gateway Festival 2010 22-24 October
Photography: Mapping the Civic Space
Co-curator, Art & Architecture Lecture Series Spring 2010 Speakers: Mark Pimlott, Diego Ferrari, Bridget Smith, chaired by Dr Alison Rooke.
The Photographer's Gallery, London. 26 April 2010
The Ethics of Social Realist Film and Photography
Soapbox talk, 25 October.
This Is Not A Gateway Festival 2009 23-25 October
