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11.01. 2025

AYESHA HAMEED

Black Atlantis: Retrograde Futurism

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In the Shadow of Our Ghosts, 2018 © Ayesha Hameed & Hamedine Kane

On 29 April 2006, a twenty-foot boat was spotted off the south-eastern coast of Barbados. On board, eleven bodies were found by the coastguards, preserved and desiccated by the sun and salt water. The ghost ship was adrift for four months on the Atlantic Ocean. It set sail on Christmas day in Praia in the Cape Verde Islands, full of migrants from Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and Gambia en route to the Canary Islands. Each of these men paid £890 for their place on the boat.

This is an inadequate telling of this story that draws on the materials and tools at hand to make sense of the complicity of weather, ocean currents and state violence in the journey of this ship. Hovering between the film and the essay form is a questioning of the adequacy of the measuring of histories and affects connected to crossing, languages to make evident the materiality of the sea, and the both measurable and immeasurable horror contained in the figure of the ghost ship.

Time

17:00–18:30

Location

TQW Studios

Duration

90 Min

Price

Eintritt frei

Additional Information

In englischer Sprache
  • Dates

    • SAT
      11.01.

      Ayesha Hameed

      Black Atlantis: Retrograde Futurism

      17:00 – 18:30

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      In englischer Sprache

  • Artist Bio

    Ayesha Hameed

    makes videos, sound works, textiles, and performances. She is also a creative writer, critical essayist and poet. Her work explores the legacies of indentureship and slavery through the figures of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The motifs of water, borders, and displacement, recurrent in her work, offer a reflection on migration stories and materialities, and, more broadly, on the relations between human beings and what they imagine as nature. She currently teaches on the MFA in Art at Goldsmiths University of London, is a Kone Foundation Research Fellow, Artist in Residence at the Camden Arts Centre and Professor of Artistic Research at Uniarts Helsinki.

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