Ayesha Hameed

Ayesha Hameed (UK) lives in London, UK. Since 2014, Hameed’s multi-chapter project “Black Atlantis” has looked at the Black Atlantic and its afterlives in contemporary illegalized migration at sea, in oceanic environments, through Afrofuturistic dance floors and sound systems, and in outer space. Through videos, audio essays and performance lectures, she examines how to think through sound, image, water, violence and history as elements of an active archive, and time travel as an historical method. Recent exhibitions include the Biennales of Liverpool (2020), Gothenburg (2019), Lubumbashi (2019), and Dakar (2018). She is co-editor of “Futures and Fictions” (Repeater 2017) and co-author of “Visual Cultures as… Time Travel” (Sternberg, forthcoming 2020). She is currently Co-Program Leader of the PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.