Associate Professor, Africana Studies

TOPIC: “ The End of Eating Everything”

Ayesha Hameed 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, Hameed examines how to think through sound, image, water, violence and history as elements of an active archive, and of time travel as an historical method. Recent exhibitions include Liverpool Biennale (2021), Gothenburg Biennale (2019), Lubumbashi Biennale (2019) and Dakar Biennale (2018). Hameed is co-editor of Futures and Fictions (Repeater 2017) and co-author of Visual Cultures as Time Travel (Sternberg/MIT Press, forthcoming 2021). She is currently Co-Programme Leader of the PhD in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.

ORGANIZERS

For this Forum, The End of Eating Everything is co-hosted by the Wattis Institute and the Graduate Program in Visual & Critical Studies. Organized by Jacqueline Francis, Diego Villalobos, and Kim Nguyen.

Land to Light On, is a collaborative public programming series between the Wattis Institute and CCA's academic departments focusing on racial capitalism, abolition, and decolonization.  Land to Light On is an ongoing conversation with no foreseeable end. We carry the words of Dionne Brand with each iteration: I don’t want no fucking country, here or there and all the way back, I don’t like it, none of it, easy as that. I’m giving up on land to light on, and why not, I can’t perfect my own shadow, my violent sorrow, my individual wrists.