Ayesha Hameed

Ayesha Hameed

Actor · Director · Writer

Biography

Through videos, audio essays and performance lectures, Ayesha Hameed 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 Liverpool Biennale (2020), Gothenburg Biennale (2019), Lubumbashi Biennale (2019) and Dakar Biennale (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-Programme Leader of the PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University of London.

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Representative Works

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Gladys Brown
2017Nominee

Best Performance

Gladys Brown

A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints)
2017Nominee

Best Director

A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints)

Black Atlantis: the Plantationocene
2017Nominee

Best Writing

Black Atlantis: the Plantationocene

Career Highlights

In the Shadow of Our Ghosts
2018Highlight

Best Director

In the Shadow of Our Ghosts