Portfolio

PORTFOLIO OF SELECTED CURATED PROJECTS 2011 - Present

Centre for Possible Studies, Project space and hub for 30+ public art commissions between 2009-2013

2011

Serpentine Cinema: CINACT, GATE CINEMA, London - Redmond Entwistle and Wael Shawky

The Edgware Road Project: I Love Egypt, MARBLE ARCH/ SPEAKERS CORNER, London Public installations and festival in Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, London with over 6000 visitors over a weekend and an installation of 6 tents produced in Cairo. Named a Temporary Learning Camp 6 tents produced in Egypt through workshops are bought to London to center conversations and exchanges with communities from both cities. - Susan Hefuna with students at Westminster Academy, Gill Clarke and artist Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad.

Image from Susan Hefuna’s I love Egypt - Temporary Learning Camp, Speakers Corner, London

The Edgware Road Project: Bidoun Library exhibition at the Serpentine and public seminars Serpentine Pavilion, Serpentine Galleries, Exhibition and public installation for 3 months with Bidoun, Michael C Vazquez Nawal Al Saadawi, Samandal Comics, Sadat, the Library Campaign, the Feminist Library, New Cross Library, the Goldsmiths Library Occupation, Ahdaf Soueif, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Slavs and Tatars.

Bidoun Library installation in Serpentine Galleries, Summer 2011

Serpentine Cinema: The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni Rania Stephan

The Edgware Road Project: Chicago Boys: while we were singing, they were dreaming - Hiwa K

SERPENTINE PAVILION BY PETER ZUMTHOR Park Night: Shaabi Music Wedding Dance Party - Bidoun Library

Skills Exchange: Trading Spaces Barby Asante and researcher Cristina Garrido Sanchez, Goldsmiths Centre for Urban and Community Research, InSpire Reminiscence group, East Street Market and the Sarsaparilla Summits.

Skills Exchange: A Palace for Us Tom Hunter with Age UK Hackney.

Skills Exchange: The Trip Marcus Coates with St. John’s Hospice London.

2011 - 2014

The Edgware Road Project: Artists in Residence Anton Kats, Implicated Theatre, Wael Shawky, Malak Helmy, Ultra Red, no.w.here, CAMP, Marwan Rechmaoui, X-Talk, Bidoun, Implicated Theatre, Rania Stephan, Emily Wardill, Hiwa K, Wael Shawky, Bidoun.

The Edgware Road Project: no.w.here, Frances Rifkin, Implicated Theatre, Migrants Resource Centre, Daria Martin, Massimiliano ‘Mao’ Mollona, John Akomfrah, no.w.here, Frances Rifkin, Implicated Theatre, Migrants Resource Centre, Karem Ibrahim, Dave Rogers, Anti-Raids Campaign, Arts Against Extradition, Mohanad Yaqubi, Nick Denes, Margareta Kern. no.w.here, Nabil Ahmed, Emily Wardill, Bidoun and Ubuweb, Frances Rifkin, Implicated Theatre, Migrants Resource Centre.

The Edgware Road Project: People’s Research Seminars Etel Adnan Debra Lennard, No.w.here, Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton and Hannes Schmidt

2011 - 2019

Implicated Theatre: Frances Rifkin, No.w.here, Anti Raids Network, Latin American Workers Association, Justice for Domestic Workers, English for Action, UNITE’s Hotel Workers Union, UNITE’s Migrant Workers Education Project (UMWEP), University of East London, London Metropolitan University, Frances Rifkin, Brad Butler, Noor Afshan Mirza, Janna Graham, Amal Khalaf, Grace Kyne-Lilley, Mathias, Anabel Claro, Andy, Aissata Thiam, Tunde Molnar, Jonas Tiknius, Hugh O’Shea, Mario, Pats, Mitsuo Nakamura-Branvall, Laura Marziale, Mahdi, Josephine, Karem Ibrahim, Claudia Dias, Rafel Sanches-Palop, Felipe, Nelly Abraham, Samuel, Adel K, Oxana Kremleva, Qing Ren, Margareta Kern, Carlo Bellanove, Patricia Vincent, Joao, Ana Blanco, Marta, Thierry Bedue, Enrico Sibour, Manuel Sepulveda, Jojo Kang, Tamar Eiminato, Edelquinn Santiago, Mario Gimara, Alireza AliMohammadi, Tesfit, Maria Pais, Nelson M, Sajit H, Soraya, Luseyana, Tatiana L, Felipe Conejo, Fernando Silva, Larisa Petkova.

Implicated Theatre: ACT ESOL English for Action, Nelly Alfandari, Dermot Bryers, Alexander Black, Amy Jowett, Barbara Labiejko, Lawrence Leason, Liz Mytton, Silva Perin, Frances Rifkin, Jess Walker, Becky Winstanley, Nic Vass, Elisabeth Klement.

Performance as part of Bjarke Ingels Serpentine Pavilion by Implicated Theatre in 2016

2012

On the Edgware Road Exhibition and Publication Al Arez Restaurant; The Arts Catalyst; Casco: Office for Art, Design and Theory; Church Street Library; Church Street Neighbourhood Management; The Delfina Foundation; Dunya Restaurant; FreqOUT!; Gasworks; Gateway Primary School; Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre: Project 5; If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution; Migrant Resource Centre; Raven Row; Rose Issa Projects; St. Marylebone School; Al Shishawi Restaurant; The Showroom; 60 Penfold Street; Tyburn Convent; Westminster Academy; Westminster Libraries & Archives; Wyspa Institute of Art and X:talk.

Skills Exchange: A Care Congress - Åbäke; Abbeyfield Trust; Age Concern Hackney; Age Concern Westminster; Barby Asante; Camden Homes for Older People; Marcus Coates; Goldsmiths Centre for Urban and Community Research; Beatrice Gibson; Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art; Tom Hunter; INSPIRE, Southwark; Markus Miessen; Rayne Foundation; St. John’s Hospice; Westmead Care Home; Westminster Housing.

The Edgware Road Project: Revolution at Point Zero book launch Silvia Federici

The Edgware Road Project: Imprint Fabelist with residents of the Church Street neighbourhood

2013

Implicated Theatre: Embassy Ball Anti Raids Network, Latin Americans Workers Association, Migrants Resource Centre, Cockpit Theatre.

Skills Exchange: ART+CARE: A Future Publication Abake, Markus Miessen and Westmead Care Home; Barby Asante and InSpire Southwark; Marcus Coates, Alex H and St. John’s Hospice; Tom Hunter, Woodberry Down Estate Tea and Coffee Group and Age UK and Beatrice Gibson and Camden Homes for Older People.

RE:ASSEMBLY: Songs for Edgware Road Exhibition Serpentine Galleries and St Marylebone C of E School

Installation in a St Marylebone school of ceramic desks by Ultra-red

The Edgware Road Project: Continuous City Mapping Arab London - Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art (Doha), Ibrahim El-Salahi, Margaret Obank, Ma’n Abu Taleb, Etel Adnan, Sophia Al-Maria and Hisham Matar and Deena Chalabi.

SERPENTINE PAVILION BY SOU FUJIMOTO Park Night: Continuous City Mapping Arab London - Tashweesh and Waeil Abo Bakr

Park night in Sou Fujimoto’s Serpentine Pavilion

Al Araba Al Madfuna II Serpentine Exhibition Wael Shawky

Wael Shawky’s Cabaret Crusades as part of Al Araba Al Madfuna exhibition at Serpentine

AS ARTIST

Group Show

Speculations on Anonymous Materials, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Solo Show

Ceremonial Achievements, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany

Achievements in Swiss Summit, Project Native Informant, London, UK

A Space for National Achievement, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Amalgamated City, 30m wallpaper and sound installation in the Friedricianum 2013

2013 -16

The Edgware Road Project: For a Walk With… Anton Kats with Westmead Elderly Resource Centre and Carlton Dene Care Home

2014

The Edgware Road Project: From Neighbourhood to Neighbourhoods Residency exchange with Mathaf, Qatar Public exhibitions, interventions and commissions in Doha, Qatar Khalifa Al Obaidly, Alia Farid, Malak Helmy, and Ultra-red

Implicated Theatre: What Country Friends Is this? Migrants Resource Centre

Publication: Pleasure Block Study CAMP

Action of Street/Action of Room Febrik (Mohamad Hafeda and Reem Charif) with Aaron, Abdi, Bruno, Hanaa, Jaber, Kevin, Nahid, Siana, Westminster Academy and Marwan Kaabour.

Implicated Theatre: Our Story – A Tale of Two CitiesUnite Hotel Workers Branch

AS ARTIST

Group Show

Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine

Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York, NY

Dark Velocity1, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, NY

DISown – Not For Everyone, Redbull Studios, New York, NY

Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Solo show

GCC: Achievements in Retrospective, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE

GCC: Achievements in Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art PS1, New York, NY

Two images from GCC installation on facade and lobby of New Museum, NY

2015

A Stage for Any Revolution Public Sculpture on Edgware Road, London erected for one month to stage the following events and used by the public and neighbouring community
Events included: Alia Farid with Kiani Del Valle, Diásporas Críticas
Alia Farid restages Zoe Leonard’s performance I want a president in Kuwaiti Arabic
Acts of Memory – Tyburnia Originally by Monica Ross and staged by Sophia Al Maria for A Stage for Any Revolution

Bright Echo - Sophia Al Maria

Tyburnia -Public performance and intervention on Edgware Road - James Holcombe with Greenside Community Centre

Alia Farid’s Stage for Any Revoliution

Implicated Theatre: We are Implicated, So are you

Implicated Theatre: Working Conversations - London Metropolitan University

Implicated Theatre: Towards a Radio Ballad: Songs of the Journey - Frances Rifkin, Patrick Farmer with UNITE the Union’s Hotel Workers Branch.

AS ARTIST

SOLO SHOW

A Wonderful World Under Construction, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait

GROUP SHOW

America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Sources Go Dark, Future Project, Prague, Czech

Accented, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, UAE

Le Souffleur, Ludwigforum, Aachen, Germany

The World in 2015, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Thank You, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany

2016

SERPENTINE PAVILION BY BJARKE INGELS - Park Night: Implicated Theatre: Towards a Radio Ballad: Songs of the Journey - Frances Rifkin, Patrick Farmer with UNITE the Union’s Hotel Workers Branch.

Studies on a Road: The School and the Neighbourhood: A Subverted Curriculum - Ultra Red with St Marylebone CE School

Studies on a Road: Is this OUR Edgware Road? - Hato Press with Centre for Possible Studies x Westminster Academy Public Space Seminar

Studies on a Road: Who Comes to Church Street Makes it: A Walking A-Z of the Area - Chris X and Sam Curtis with Church Street residents

Studies on a Road: From Bread-Salt to Rainbows - Seymour Arts Collective

Studies on a Road: Public 10 - Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad with Centre for Possible Studies x Westminster Academy Public Space Seminar

Studies on a Road: For a Walk with: Dementia in the City - Anton Kats with Westmead Elderly Resource Centre and Carlton Dene Care Home.

2016 - ongoing

Church Street Local Projects Shelf Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad with Church Street Library, London NW8 - Permanent shelf design and local book exchange in public library

AS ARTIST

Solo Show

Positive Pathways (+), Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY

Group Shows

Migrating Forms, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

Positive Pathways, Berlin Biennale, Berlin

Positive Pathways, Berlin Biennale sculpture, sound piece, sand and running track

2017

SERPENTINE PAVILION BY FRANCIS KERE - piublic programme: Radical Kitchen, Serpentine Galleries, London

Mazí Mas with Women for Refugee Women, Focus E15, People’s Fridge, You Make It!, The Nzinga Effect, Build Up.

Park Night: Corbeaux - Bouchra Ouizguen in partnership with Shubbak Festival

Corbeaux, in Francis Kere’s Serpentine Pavilion

2017 - 2018

Implicated Theatre: Speak Back - Implicated Theatre with the Women’s Cultural Forum (Nottingham) and Asylum and Refugee Association (Birmingham), as part of Conflict, Memory and Displacement, an AHRC funded research project led by Gargi Bhattacharyya, Kirsten Forkert, Janna Graham and Federico Oliver

AS ARTIST

Gestures, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany

Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Commercial Break, Public Art Fund, New York, NY

Commercial Break, commissioned by the Public Art Fund for the Barclays Centre, NY

2017 - 2023

Everything Worthwhile Is Done with Other People

Rehana Zaman with Becky, Betty, E.E, Isatou, Millicent, Damilola, Damilola, Destiny, Mide, Esther, Noma, Rachel and Sophia.

Project won a Jarman Award, 2023

2018

Rights to the City? Forum Luis Agosto-Leduc, Barby Asante, Ain Bailey, Yogesh Barve, Simone Browne, Luis Camnitzer, Clark House Initiative, Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad, Adelita Husni-Bey, Jasleen Kaur, Koyo Kouoh, Gail Lewis, Saviya Lopes, Paul Maheke, Julia Morandeira, Jesus ‘Bubu’ Negron, Amol K Patil, Peter Pal Pelbart, Sondra Perry, Emily Pethick, Brigada Puerta de Tierra, Sumesh Sharma, Patricia Thomson, Mick Wilson, Jo White from the Portman Early Childhood Centre, Mia White and Rehana Zaman.

Radio Earth Hold - Rachel Dedman, Laure Selys and Arjuna Neuman with Ultra-red, Daisy Hildyard, Sulaiman Majali, Sophie Dyer, Louis Moreno and Dhanveer Singh Brar, Inas Halabi, Ravon and Autumn Chacon, Basma al-Sharif and Sky Hopinka, and Ma’an Abu Taleb.

AS ARTIST

James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY

Peer-to-Peer. Collective Practices in New Art, Museum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland

Hello World. Revising a Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

GOOD MORNING GCC, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE

2018 - 2022

Sonic Stories - Ain Bailey with Micro Rainbow

2018 - 2019

Writing the City: What are Words Worth? Sentient Value Systems, Taylor Le Melle and Daniella Valz Gen with Khairani Barokka, Christopher Kirubi, Wail Qasim, Nisha Ramayya, Azad Ashim Sharma and Rehana Zaman.

SERPENTINE PAVILION BY FRIDA ESCOBEDO - Radical Kitchen programme - Jasleen Kaur, Fozia Ismail, Zinzi Minott, Angus Cameron, Daniella Val Genz, Arabeschi di Latte (Francesca Sarti), Territorial Agency, Ghetto Gastro, Cooking Sections, Mazí Mas.

2019

SERPENTINE PAVILION BY JUNYA ISHIGAMI
Recipes for Change Programme, Serpentine Galleries, London
Micro Rainbow, Adelita Hunsi-Bey, Sacred Seeds, Shadow Sistxrs

Hito Steyerl Exhibition POWER PLANTS, Serpentine Galleries, London -
Public Programme Power Walks

Hito Steyerl with Architects for Social Housing, Disabled People Against Cuts, The Voice of Domestic Workers and artist Constantine Gras

Exhibition view, Hito Steyerl’s Power Plants, Serpentine Galleries, London

Bahrain Pavilion in Venice Biennale, The Wait, The title of the exhibition takes its cue from the 1999 work by artist Nasser Al Yousif, a leading figure in the art world of Bahrain, and brings contemporary artists on display – Nasser Al Yousif, Hasan Hujairi, Hala Kaiksow, Bahraini-Danish, Mariam Al Noaimi and Ghada Khunji.

Bahrain Pavilion - The Wait - exhibition view

Curator of central Pavilion, LaBiennale, Grand Palais, Paris, Bahrain was chosen as guest of honour at La Biennale Paris 2019. The Pavilion was dedicated not only to contemporary art but also to crafts from Bahrain. Twenty-one artists were selected to exhibit their works in this prestigious exhibition. Abdulla Buhijji, Abdul Rahim Sharif, Ahmed Anan, Aysha Al Moayyed, Hamed Al Bosta, Hala Kaiksow, Somaya Abdulghani, Jaafar Al Haddad, Balqees Fakhro, Ghada Khunji, Hesham Sharif, Ishaq Madan, Jamal Abdulrahim, Khalid Al Jabri, Lulwa Al Khalifa, Maryam Al Amin, Maryam Al Noaimi, Marwa Al Khalifa, Nabeela Al Khayer, Noof Alrefaei and Omar Al Rashed. Abdulla Buhijji, Abdul Rahim Sharif, Ahmed Anan, Aysha Al Moayyed, Hamed Al Bosta, Hala Kaiksow, Somaya Abdulghani, Jaafar Al Haddad, Balqees Fakhro, Ghada Khunji, Hesham Sharif, Ishaq Madan, Jamal Abdulrahim, Khalid Al Jabri, Lulwa Al Khalifa, Maryam Al Amin, Maryam Al Noaimi, Marwa Al Khalifa, Nabeela Al Khayer,Noof Alrefaei, Omar Al Rashed, Abdulhusain Yusuf Mohamed Hasan.

La Biennale, Grand Palais, Paris

2019 - 2023

RADIO BALLADS 4 YEAR PUBLIC ART WORKSHOP, COMMISSI|ON AND EXHIBITION AS PART OF MAYOR OF LONDON’S CULTURE IMPACT AWARD delivered with NEW TOWN CULTURE, LONDON BOROUGH OF BARKING AND DAGENHAM

Radio Ballads: Yes, I Hear You; Sonia Boyce with LBBD Domestic Abuse Commission and Survivors Panel, LBBD Social Care Services, Clean Break, Kat Acevedo, Cllr Samia Ashraf, Sammy Holcombe, Anna Graham, Nathan Roser, Kayleigh Tumber, Zahra Ibrahim, Ain Bailey, Sarah Boosey, Susan Cade, Georgia Scotland, Petra Prince, Maria Cripps, Florence Henry, Anna Herrmann, Rachel Hughes, Claire Pounder, Gail Lewis, Róisín McBrinn, Michelle Hamilton, Luke Christian, Jasmine Butterfly, Amelia Grant, Adam Young, Joseph Karanja, Christine McGeary, Maria Clerkin, Tolu Williams, Dana Janes, Diane Calverly, Cranstoun, Latifat Afolabi, Polly Neate, Cllr Maureen Worby, Hazel North Stephens, Faye Gayle, Niamh Sullivan, We Rise Hub and Excel Women's Centre.

Radio Ballads: Bass Notes and SiteLines: The Voice as a site of Resistance and the Body as a Site of Resilience, Helen Camock with Pause, LBBD Adult Social Care Services, InJOY Choir, Tia Rose, Charlotte Marshall-Vale, Claire Martin, Amelia Grant, Amy Pope, Lois Otu Enwo, Paula Robinson, Petra Prince, Susan Cade, Georgia Scotland, Sarah Boosey, Aleecha, Jasmine, Lucy, Kellyanne, Sarah, Paige, Shannon, Kirsty, Deanna, Claire, Danielle, Gemma, Stacey, Wendy Pickles, Sandra Cammock, Tish Marble, Tamsin Hinton-Smith, Sam Griffiths, Georgia Barrington, Tracey Hayward, Joanne Vaughan, Sarah Foord and LBBD Community Solutions, Becky Warnock, Katie Slaymaker

Radio Ballads: RAFTS - This project is nominated for a TURNER PRIZE, 2023; Rory Pilgrim with Project partners are Green Shoes Arts, Barking and Dagenham Youth Dance, Project Well Being (Interfaith Sanctuary, Boise, Idaho), London Contemporary Orchestra, Eddie Paggett, Hugh Prior, Dee Pessoa, Carina Murray, Liam O Connell, Mark Jones, Emily Butterfly Khoury, Catherina Rowland, Vicki Busfield, Sam Miller, Nikki Watson, Kevin Walton, Melissa Bell, Marcos Ramos, Geoffrey McCauley, Janet Kauffman, Nicki Vogel, Jeffrey Doroto, Jacob Heiter, Tina Logsdon, Tina Cartwright, Scott Cramer, Sarah Kemper, Cook, Georgina Alexiou, Red Fox, Anabel Berko, Breanna Amoako, Calum Johnstone, Chisom Nzekwe, Eugenia Rapta, Heavenly-Joy Obeng, Kiera Dymond, Lara Pinto Wlodarczyk, Marly Fadiga, Rome Martin-Whilby, Ruby Harris, Sasha Dilevska, Kayden Fearon, Robyn Haddon, Declan Rowe John, Rob Ames, Saloni Thakkar, Amy Hinds, Jack Sheen, Marged Sion, Paul Perry, Donna Cain, Lorraine Fox, Salom Ranger, LBBD Temporary Housing and Accommodation, Ronald Long, Natasha Humphries, Freya Hicks, Rebecca Burden, Clare Bennett, Alastair Penman, Anna Drysdale, Todd Harris, Rick Leigh, David Jarzen, Dan Lewis, Letty Pilgrim, Kate Marlais, Katie Dove Dixon, Seraphina Simone D'Arby, Sophie Galpin, ASAI, Jonathon Graham, Olga Micińska and Mathild Clerc-Verhoeven, Cody G, Charlie Gregory, Dave and The White House.

Radio Ballads: The Body Blow; Ilona Sagar with London Asbestos Support Awareness Group (LASAG), LBBD Adult Social Care Services, Yvonne Miah, Jim Reynolds, Gwendoline Green, Bonnie Thompson, David Thompson, Robert Kett, Gladys Goodman, Cally Islam, Moriom Zaman, Ruth Crossley, Felicia Behan, Isobel Lovett, Lorna Webster, Hodge Jones and Allen Richard Meeran, Leigh Day Solicitors, Rebecca Campbell Jones, St George's University Hospitals, Prof. Robert Rintoul, Sam Edwards, Dr Nagmi Qureshi, Dr Doris Rassl, Charlotte Miller, Georgia Moule, Mr Giuseppe Aresu, Trudi Bircham, Uchechi Nzedi, Lulasz Kiszka, Royal Papworth Hospital & Mick Knighton Mesothelioma Tissue Bank MesobanK, Dr Johanna Feary, Zander Williams, Mathew Johnson, Lungs at Work Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital, Matt Barritt, Mitchell Ryan, Reece Kingston, Jody Robinson, Craig Warner, Aleam Environmental Services, Professor John Brodholt, UCL Rock Room, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University College London, Valence House Archives and Local Studies Centre, The Wellcome Collection, London Hazard Centre, Martha Horn.

The Body Blow is in remembrance of Robert Kett, Gladys Goodman, Vicky Kaye, Joseph Terrell, Fred Law and David Thompson

2021

Sensing the Planet, DARTINGTON TRUST, Dartington, Devon, UK, Exhibitions, public art, three day festival in a 13th Century hall in Devon, UK
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Paul Gilroy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Philippe Sands; as well as interventions, performances and installations by artists, musicians and researchers including Nabil Ahmed, Barby Asante, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Radha D’Souza & Jonas Staal, Forensic Architecture, Hannah Catherine Jones, Thandi Loewenson, Elaine Mitchener, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Femi Oriogun Williams, Ingrid Pollard, Tabita Rezaire, Imani Robinson, Libita Sibungu, Jason Singh, Himali Singh Soin, Shifa, Foluke Taylor, Pat Thomas, Seah Wraye, The Otolith Group, Zadie Xa, Wretched of the Earth, Exeter Decolonising Network, Bristol Decolonising Network, Plane Stupid and Racial Justice Network.

Listening to the City: Atlantic Railton: Live - Ain Bailey with Imani Mason Jordan and Rabz Lansiquot

Listening to the City: Atlantic Railton - Ain Bailey with Sharon Elliott, Claudette Parry, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinksi, Marc Thompson, Matthew Phillip from Mangrove Steelband and Holly Shuttleworth

On Practice Podcast - Cooking: Jasleen Kaur, women from the Portman Early Childhood Centre, Elia Nurvista, Fozia Ismail Listening: Ain Bailey, Micro Rainbow, Pauline Oliveros, Ultra-red and Ximena Alarcón. Walking: Sam Curtis, children from the Portman Early Childhood centre, Tim Ingold, Voice of Domestic Workers and Katouche Goll. Reduced Listening.

Radio Ballads: Becontree Broadcasting Station Launch - Joe Namy with Brian Eno, Sumayya Vally and DJ Tati.

2021 - ongoing

Radio Ballads: Becontree Broadcasting Station - Joe Namy with residents from Barking and Dagenham, Ab Phab Youth Club, Adanna Women's Support Group, Amelia Poamz, Arc Theatre, Barking and Dagenham Cost of Living Support Group, Broadway Theatre, BD Project Youth Club, Black Outside, B&D Carnival – UKON Careers, EFT London Jazz Fest, Focal Point Gallery, Grafton Primary School, International Day of Disabled People B&D annual celebration, Library Sessions, Lifeline Community Resources, Mayesbrook Park School, Mayesbrook Children’s Centre, New Town Culture, Pen 2 Print’s Write Back, RadioActive workshops,Social Broadcasts / Lucia Scazzicchio, Summer Sight Loss Event, This Girls Ability Youth Club, The White House, Treasured Memories, Youth Health Programmes for the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham.

Support Structures for Support Structures - Abbas Zahedi, Barby Asante, Beverley Bennett, Blak Outside, Ferarts Collective, Jacob V. Joyce, Nawi Collective, Other Cinemas, Resolve Collective, Skin Deep

2022

Publication - VERTICAL ATLAS, publication - https://www.digitalearth.art/vertical-atlas - Contributors Sophia Al Maria, Heba Y. Amin, Lotte Arndt, Benjamin H. Bratton, Kévin Bray, James Bridle, Ingrid Burrington, Adriana Bustos, Ben Cerveny, Guo Cheng, Chimurenga, Cristina Cochior, Sounak Das, Data Justice Lab (Philippa Metcalfe, Fieke Jansen), Pablo DeSoto, Alexis Destoop, Marjolijn Dijkman, DISNOVATION.ORG, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Cao Fei, Shuang Lu Frost, Maya Indira Ganesh, Pélagie Gbaguidi, GCC Group, Geocinema (Asia Bazdyrieva, Solveig Qu Suess), John Gerrard, Oulimata Gueye, Camille Henrot, Femke Herregraven, Yuk Hui, Sanneke Huisman, Victoria Ivanova, Vladan Joler, Isaac Kariuki, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Francois Knoetze, Srinivas Kodali, Bogna Konior, Lukáš Likavčan, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Svitlana Matviyenko, Emo de Medeiros, Metahaven, Dorine Mokha, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Musasa, Katja Novitskova, Nanjala Nyabola, Trevor Paglen, Alice Piva, Chen ‘Stanley’ Qiufan, Nii Quaynor, Elia Rediger, Tabita Rezaire, Lucas Rolim, Bassem Saad, Nanjira Sambuli, Georges Senga, Nzilani Simu, Andrej Škufca, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Suzanne Treister, Unknown Fields, Jordi Vallverdú, Richard Vijgen, Sarah Waiswa, Zhan Wang, Kedolwa Waziri, Mi You, Qiu Zhijie, Dan Zhu - Editors Leonardo Dellanoce, Amal Khalaf, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Nanjala Nyabola, Renée Roukens, Arthur Steiner and Mi You

Hardcover | 400 pp | English | October 2022 | ISBN 978-94-1444-69-2 -

Also accessible as a free digital publication at verticalatlas.net

Vertical Atlas is a collaboration between Hivos’ Digital Earth and Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Radio Ballads: Serpentine and Barking Town Hall Exhibition - Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Rory Pilgrim, Ilona Sagar with New Town Culture, Barking Dagenham Youth Dance, Barking and Dagenham Domestic Abuse Commission, Clean Break, Becontree Broadcasting Station (Valence Library), Green Shoes Arts, Hodge Jones and Allen Solicitors, Interfaith Sanctuary Shelter (Project Well Being), LBBD Children, Young People and Families Services, LBBD Disability and Life Planning Services, LBBD Temporary Accommodation and Hostel Services, LBBD Integrated Care, Pause, London Asbestos Support and Awareness Group (LASAG), London Contemporary Orchestra, Radio Active, The White House, Lungs at Work Imperial College, Goldsmiths Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Leigh Day Solicitors, North East London Foundation Trust and We Rise Hub.

2023

Publication - How We Hold: Rehearsals for Art and Social Change

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This book is an invitation to arts educators, cultural workers, facilitators, organisers and those who are interested in working collectively with others, who want to use creative practice to work towards change, through personal and social transformation. Drawing directly from projects generated by artists and groups of people over a decade of Serpentine Education and Civic programmes, How We Hold: Rehearsals for Art and Social Change gathers together project notes and documentation, conversations, commissioned texts and exercises to ask: Where do we go when things fall apart, when home has been taken away, when the cracks appear? How do we find moments of rest, joy and pleasure within ongoing crisis? How do we organise? Designed to be used both within organisations and as a tool to critique them, How We Hold supports dissenting and oppositional conversations, and offers pragmatic challenges to neoliberal and colonial models of education and administration still found in museums, arts organisations and other institutions today.

The book uplifts and celebrates the creativity and resistance of artists and organisers, and the many people have shaped these projects—from children in nursery to labour organisers, educators and carers, young people in academy schools and those navigating the immigration system—who find hope, possibility and life in the most difficult of circumstances.

How We Hold is edited by Jemma Egan, Layla Gatens, Elizabeth Graham, Amal Khalaf and Alex Thorp.

2025

Radio Ballads: Songs for Change

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Radio Ballads: Songs for Change takes its name from a groundbreaking series of BBC radio programs broadcast between 1957 and 1964—a time of profound social transformation across the UK. These original Ballads combined song, sound, and storytelling to bring the lives of workers and underrepresented communities into public earshot, challenging mainstream narratives and giving voice to those rarely heard.

More than sixty years later, this publication extends that legacy. Developed through the Serpentine Civic Projects in London, Radio Ballads documents the commissioning of four contemporary works by artists Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Rory Pilgrim, and Ilona Sagar. Created in long-term collaboration with carers, organizers, social workers, and residents in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (2019–23), these new Ballads emerge from the lived experiences of those who sustain civic life—often invisibly—through networks of care, resilience, and mutual support.

At the heart of the book are eight conceptual “songs”: Working In and Against Systems, Listening, Processing, Embodying, Dreaming, Supporting, Connecting, and Voicing. These threads weave together complex, intimate stories of navigating health and care infrastructures, domestic violence, terminal illness, grief, and end-of-life experiences. Together, they reflect on how creative collaboration can open spaces for collective healing and critical resistance.

Radio Ballads invites us to listen differently—to imagine new ways of gathering, organizing, and creating solidarity. In a time of fragmentation and crisis, it asks: what kinds of collective songs do we need now?

Radio Ballads: Songs for Change. Edited by Layla Gatens, Elizabeth Graham, and Amal Khalaf. With artistic contributions from Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Rory Pilgrim, and Ilona Sagar. The publication also includes newly commissioned and previously published texts by Sanah Ahsan, Camille Barton, adrienne maree brown, Jemma Desai, Priya Jay, Rae Johnson, Gail Lewis, Layli Long Soldier, Staci Haines, Saidiya Hartman, Aisha Mirza, Meenadchi, and Jackie Wang, as well as a foreword by Serpentine director Hans Ulrich Obrist. Additionally, it features insights from practitioners in the field of care work, including social workers, youth offending service providers, harm reduction facilitators, end-of-life care practitioners, somatic therapists, community organizers, and more. Design by Elisabeth Klement. Book photography above by Matthew Ritson.