Ayesha Hameed

Ayesha Hameed’s moving image, performance, and written work explore contemporary borders and migration, and visual cultures of the Black Atlantic. Her projects Black Atlantis and A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints) have been performed and exhibited internationally. She is the co-editor of Futures and Fictions (Repeater 2017) and is currently the Programme Leader for the MA in Contemporary Art Theory in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University of London, UK. Recent exhibitions include Liverpool Biennale (2020); Gothenburg Biennial, Sweden (2019); Lubumbashi Biennale, Democratic Republic of Congo (2019); and Dakar Biennale, Senegal (2018). She is currently the co-program leader of the PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University of London. Her publications include Futures and Fictions (co-edited with Simon O’Sullivan and Henriette Gunkel Repeater, 2017), Visual Cultures as Time Travel (with Henriette Gunkel Sternberg, 2018); and contributions to Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth (Sternberg Press, 2014), We Travelled The Spaceways (Duke University Press, 2018), and Unsound/Undead (2018).