Ayesha Hameed

Ayesha Hameed’s work explores contemporary borders and migration, critical race theory, Walter Benjamin, and visual cultures of the Black Atlantic. Her work has been performed or exhibited at ICA, London (2015), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2014), at The Chimurenga Library at the Showroom, London (2015), Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, Oxford (2015), Edinburgh College of Art (2015), Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna (2015), Pavilion, Leeds in 2015 and at Homeworks Space Program, Beirut in 2016. Her publications include contributions to Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth (Sternberg Press 2014), We Travelled The Spaceways (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2017), Unsound/Undead (Univocal, forthcoming 2017); and books including Visual Cultures as Time Travel (with Henriette Gunkel, Sternberg, forthcoming 2018), Futures and Fictions (co-edited with Simon O’Sullivan and Henriette Gunkel, forthcoming 2017). She is currently the Joint Programme Leader in Fine Art and History of Art and formerly a Research Fellow with Forensic Architecture at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University, London.