Selected Publications

Vertical Atlas (2022) co-editor

VERTICAL ATLAS IS A NEW PUBLICATION ON THE GEOPOLITICS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

How to navigate the rapidly changing digital geopolitics of the world today? How to make sense of digital transformations and their many social, political, cultural, and environmental implications at different locations around the world? Vertical Atlas brings together the insights of a diverse group of internationally renowned artists, scientists and technologists from different backgrounds and places. From an investigation into the lithium mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo to maps of the fiber-optic submarine cables in the Atlantic and the ride-hailing platforms of China.

Vertical Atlas is not a classic atlas that depicts the world in a uniform manner and it is not a collection of traditional maps. It is a set of tools that enable comparisons, connections, and the seeing of connections and contradictions between different and diverse visions, realities and techno-political worlds – through newly commissioned diagrams, interviews, essays and works of art by leading experts from around the world.

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 and 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.

How We Hold : Rehearsals for Art and Social Change (2023) co-editor

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.

Radio Ballads: Songs for Change (2025) co-editor

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.

English
608 pages
18.3 x 21 cm
Full color, richly illustrated
Softcover, thread-sewn, shrink-wrapped with sticker
ISBN: 978-3-941230-35-4
Institutional partner: Serpentine Civic Projects
Co-published with Serpentine, London

Authour 'Reimagining the Spaces of Learning' for Swiss Insitute, NYC, on the occasion of Alia Farid's exhibition (Swiss Institute, 2022)

Authour 'DRAWING BREATH' for Jitish Kallat Order of Magnitude, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai 2022 Authour 'Rehearsals for Change' in Tools to Transform: A Workbook for Asian Diasporic Organising change/hmps://toolstotransform.net/porUolio/amal-khalaf-20210521-rehearsals-for-

Authour 'Growing Pains" on Cecile B Evans for Centre Pompidou, 2021
Authour 'Changing Worlds' in Cecile B Evans' Amos World, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln) 2020
Authour 'How to become a Tomato' in Sarah Abu Abdallah For the First Ome in a Long Time (Kustverein Hamburg, 2019)
Authour 'Sad Boy Cosmos' in Monira Al Qadiri Empire (Kerber, 2019)
Authour 'A Feminist Iconography' on Thuraya Al Baqsami in LasOng Impressions (Sharjah Art FoundaOon, 2018)
Author 'Road Block' in Squaring the Circle (Zed books, 2015);
Author 'Squaring the Circle' in Middle East CriOque (Taylor and Francis, 2013)
Author The Many Aperlives of Lulu' in Uncommon Grounds, New Media and CriOcal PracOces in North Africa and the Middle East (Ibraaz/I.B. Tauris, 2014)
Author Thinking Within and Beyond InsOtuOons' in Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art PracOces and Cultural InsOtuOons in the Middle East (Sternberg Press, 2016)

Editor: How We Hold: Rehearsals for Art and Social Change (Koenig books, 2023) Editor: Radio Ballads: Songs for Change (K.Verlag 2025)
Editor: Vertical Atlas (Artezpress, 2022) Eds Leonardo Dellannoce, Amal Khalaf, Klaas Kuitenbrower, Nanjala Nyabola, Renee Roukens, Arthur Steiner and Mi You. Editor: Language, Resistance, Theatre (Koenig Books, 2018)

Editor: Studies on a Road Pamphlet Series (SerpenOne, 2015-18)
Editor: Pleasure: A Block Study by CAMP (Brownbook, 2013)
Assistant Editor: Art + Care: A Future (Koenig Books/SerpenOne Gallery, 2013)