I am preparing for an event in May 2025 taking place at the Brig Cafe which is a campaign and activist social space in Birmingham.

Over the past year I have been working with Vivid Projects on We Did It Together, building an archival collage from a series of conversations in community libraries across the city. I will be having a conversation about working with archives with Adam Lewis Jacob who is an artist and filmmaker based in Glasgow. The conversation will be hosted by Yasmeen Baig Clifford, director of Vivid Projects and a commissioner of projects with both artists.

This event is presented in collaboration with BFI National Archive as part of a long-term project to illuminate and restore the films of the workshop movement. Adam will be screening his film Idrish (ইদ্রিস) and I am developing a live performative audio/visual multimedia reading where I plan to narrate and create a improvised sound track to some of the material from the archive I have been working with.

More info at Flatpack and Vivid Projects

I have been working with Mike Phillips to create a video projection for the Autoicon exhibit in the Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker exhibition taking place at the Whitechapel Gallery London UK between 12 Feb 2025 - 4 May 2025. The exhibition encompasses the majority of Rodney’s surviving works from 1982 to 1997 including large-scale oil pastels on X-rays, kinetic and animatronic sculptures as well as his sketchbooks and rare archival materials.

This one take 30 min conversation authentically displays the interaction which was groundbreaking for its time when it was completed in 2000. Judged by todays standards 25 years later it almost seems quaint in how it responds requiring several prompts to understand what is being asked and can seem somewhat over simplistic but still feels uniquely connected to the artists persona. A tribute to both Mike Philips who collated the media and computer programmer Adrain Ward.

Exhibition details at Whitechapel Gallery
More information about Autoicon can be found at i-dat